> Would it be worth just trying installing multiarch? With one of the > apt family. (I use aptitude). I agree that it is not obviously
# apt-get install multiarch Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package multiarch https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation says: Using multiarch "To enable the installation of multiarch binaries, apt and dpkg need configuration changes. For example, if you have an amd64 system that you want to install i386 libraries onto, do the following: multiarch support is present from dpkg 1.16.2 (or 1.16.0 in Ubuntu) and apt 0.8.13. run dpkg --add-architecture i386 run apt-get update to refresh the package cache with the newly added architecture" This seems to only provide for dpkg multiarch awareness and not the implementation. From the above referenced webpage, it looks like the packages (Catalyst) must be built to use this. Just for record, https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Bootstrapping addresses how to assemble multiarch awareness but all the content was produced 3 years ago and appears to no longer be needed due to Debain maturation. https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary#wheezy I updated to: deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free Ran:aptitude update with no errors, and: aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') fglrx-driver which ran without error except for the initial emission: No candidate version found for fglrx-driver No candidate version found for fglrx-driver So I tried: # apt-get install fglrx-modules-dkms Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package fglrx-modules-dkms Similarly, # apt-get install fglrx-driver Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package fglrx-driver is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'fglrx-driver' has no installation candidate I did see a reference to i386 files on http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Debian: # sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-radeon Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: hyphen-en-us libfs6 x11-apps x11-session-utils x11-xfs-utils xinit xorg Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: task-desktop* task-gnome-desktop* xserver-xorg-video-all* xserver-xorg-video-ati* xserver-xorg-video-radeon* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 9 not upgraded. After this operation, 1,998 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 137565 files and directories currently installed.) Removing task-gnome-desktop ... Removing task-desktop ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-all ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-ati ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-radeon ... Purging configuration files for xserver-xorg-video-radeon ... Processing triggers for man-db ... And followed this up with: sudo apt-get install fglrx-driver fglrx-control fglrx-glx fglrx-atieventsd fglrx-modules-dkms which produced: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package fglrx-glx is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source Package fglrx-driver is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'fglrx-driver' has no installation candidate E: Unable to locate package fglrx-control E: Package 'fglrx-glx' has no installation candidate E: Unable to locate package fglrx-atieventsd E: Unable to locate package fglrx-modules-dkms >From the same site, to get ia32 libraries: sudo apt-get install fglrx-glx-ia32 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package fglrx-glx-ia32 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'fglrx-glx-ia32' has no installation candidate It looks like there is a challenge with doing something with fglrx. Am I missing something here? I found an alternative at: https://wiki.debian.org/Installing_ATI_fglrx_legacy_with_latest_kernel This is a year old but it addressing building the driver package. Is there any problem with this approach? Thanks for all the input, Ray Ray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/c654bac5-f549-4f22-9a7b-ff3ba3e77...@googlegroups.com
