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Mika,<BR>
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Pardon, please the OT, but, since that method works perfectly on my mission critical machines, but I am trying to build a test bed, will the deb packages work if one has upgraded to xorg 7?<BR>
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If so, do the gl apps work?<BR>
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I e, I need xorg 7, fglrx drivers, with all 3d working.<BR>
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Best,<BR>
Martin<BR>
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On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 21:05 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">* Werner Schuster (murphee) <<A HREF="mailto:werner.schuster@gmail.com">werner.schuster@gmail.com</A>> [20060525 20:39]:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I tried to get the fglrx-kernel-2.6.16-grml drivers for ATI, but it seems </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> like that creates problems with the install Mesa drivers, ie. I get the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> following error:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Unpacking replacement fglrx-driver ...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx-driver_8.25.18-1_i386.deb </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> (--unpack):</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2', which is also in package </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> xlibmesa-gl</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Could I remove the Mesa libs? Removing the Mesa package doesn't work, because </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> that would remove half my system (even amarok depends on it).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> What about removing the libGL.so.1.2 file, so that the fglrx can install its </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> version; if the driver causes trouble, would this make my system instable?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The fglrx-driver package should take care of this and should add a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">/usr/lib/fglrx/diversions/libGl.so.1.2.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">This works for me:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> <A HREF="http://grml.org/tmp/gkrellShoot_05-25-06_210104.png">http://grml.org/tmp/gkrellShoot_05-25-06_210104.png</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Are you using Xorg 7.0? Is you system up2date?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">What does 'dpkg --get-selections | grep xlib' say?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The last method to solve the problem would be a 'dpkg -i</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">--force-overwrite ~deb/fglrx-driver_8.25.18-1_i386.deb'.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">regards,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-mika-</FONT>
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