On 2009-11-24, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just switched to the radeon driver from the fglrx driver
> Fglrx was a pretty old version and DRI had stopped working.
> Oddly, emerge has "forgotten" it's installed. It obviously is
> installed: it works (mostly), all its files are there, and
> and eselect opengl still shows an "ati" option. How do you
> uninstall a package that emerge claims isn't installed?
I still haven't figured out how to get rid of all the files
belonging to the ati-drivers package.
> Why is libGL.so looking in the wrong place for the dri modules?
>
> I suppose I could symlink /usr/X11R6/dri -> /usr/lib/dri,
Adding that symlink solved the problem.
> but shouldn't the mesa ebuild have done that if it's required?
Apparently this breakage was due to the switch to modular X11 a
while back. The instructions I was following said to delete
/usr/X11R6 if it wasn't a symlink, but they never said to
create a symlink. Apparently a number of packages depend on
that symlink being there, but none of them will create it if it
isn't there.
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