-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:51:34 -0700 > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Liam O'Toole wrote: >>> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:04:58 -0700 >>> Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> [SNIP] >>> [snip] >> now imagine this, it turns out that ATI tools modified my >> /etc/profile (2005/07/13 or before): >> >> ### START ATI FGLRX ### >> ### Automatically modified by ATI Proprietary driver scripts >> ### Please do not modify between START ATI FGLRX and END ATI FGLRX >> ... >> >> doing nasty things with LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH which >> is why it didn't work. One simple command (unset LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH) >> and it works again. > > I would be really furious in your position. Presumably the Debian > packages are better behaved.
Is there an ATI Debian package? AFAICT, the NVIDIA binary driver install app (not the Debian package, but the one directly from nvidia.com) is well-behaved. (The only file it seems to modify is xorg.conf, and puts it's files in standard locations.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEl+fyS9HxQb37XmcRAkJ2AJ9znqseioctF0IugHyFONgabbWZIwCgxpfZ hHfNKVPlcjn/wAsGELIg/Zo= =6ii1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

