Hi Rob, > I have found this doesn't work. libGL.so.1.2 is protected from > libmesa-gl upgrades, but libGL.so.1 gets screwed up:
Interesting... I was about to reply "works for me" but make a little note on my web pages that perhaps things weren't as simple as I thought, but I've had a chance to think about it some more. I don't fglrx any more (the radeon drivers worked better for me with xinerama) but this may perhaps explain why I was having some unusual screen corruption with gtk apps. FYI, my understanding of library versioning is as follows: the .so .so.1 .so.1.2 etc will often all point to the same file. If a program asks for .so it is asking for the latest version of the library. If it asks for .so.1 it is asking for the latest version of the library with the particular API defined in version 1. Similarly, .so.1.2 asks for release 2 of version 1. Etc. Do you see any side effects from this mess-up of the symlinks? > I guess the problem is that fglrx packages (via alien) don't have > libGL.so.1 in them. Based on my above understanding, I don't believe they should... and neither to the rpms. The problem appears to be in the post-install scripts to link the libraries. One solution would be to run (as root) ldconfig, which would regenerate the symlinks for you. But at this stage, we are reinventing a wheel... These issues have (presumably) all been hammered out in Flavio's ATI installer. While I haven't tried it myself, I keep hearing goo things about it. I consider the previous ways I described and the ATI instructions to be deprecated methods for installing the ATI driver. Actually, my view is that the ATI methods aren't just 'deprecated' for Debian, they're dangerous. http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html regards Stuart -- Stuart Prescott www.nanoNANOnano.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
