As you all might know, I have an ati card. I just installed the new
8.18.6 drivers yesterday.
I was later hanging around on the Rage3D Linux Drivers forum, and
noticed mention of a utility called 'aticonfig', which apparently is a
workalike for fglrxconfig (the xorg.conf configurator), but (also
apparently) works better than fglrxconfig; not least because it
--apparently-- adds to your currently-existing xorg.conf, rather than
creating a (garbage) one from scratch.
So naturally I thought I'd try running it but I don't seem to have
it, and I don't know why.
It's in the RPM (looked at the one in distfiles using file-roller).
And all the other bin files in the rpm in distfiles are in /opt/ati/bin,
dated yesterday.
Except aticonfig.
Which, locate, and find don't find it, either as a user or root. It
apparently did not get installed.
In fact, this is the case; I just re-installed the drivers to see the
output, and no mention is made of the file:
(piped to prevent Thunderbird confusing this with a quote)
| Install ati-drivers-8.18.6 into
/var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-8.18.6/image/ category media-video
| * Installing fglrx module
|man:
|making executable: /usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0
| Completed installing ati-drivers-8.18.6 into
/var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-8.18.6/image/
|
| Merging media-video/ati-drivers-8.18.6 to /
|--- /etc/
|--- /etc/env.d/
| /etc/env.d/09ati
|--- /lib/
|--- /lib/modules/
|--- /lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r4/
|--- /lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r4/video/
| /lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r4/video/fglrx.ko
|--- /opt/
|--- /opt/ati/
|--- /opt/ati/bin/
| /opt/ati/bin/fglrxinfo
| /opt/ati/bin/fglrx_xgamma
| /opt/ati/bin/fglrxconfig
|--- /usr/
|--- /usr/lib/
|--- /usr/lib/modules/
|--- /usr/lib/modules/dri/
| /usr/lib/modules/dri/atiogl_a_dri.so
| /usr/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so
|--- /usr/lib/modules/linux/
| /usr/lib/modules/linux/libfglrxdrm.a
|--- /usr/lib/modules/drivers/
| /usr/lib/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.o
|--- /usr/lib/opengl/
|--- /usr/lib/opengl/ati/
| /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/
| /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1.2
| /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.la
| /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so - libGL.so.1.2
| /usr/lib/opengl/ati/extensions - ../xorg-x11/extensions
| /usr/lib/opengl/ati/include - ../xorg-x11/include
| /usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0
| /usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.a
|--- /usr/include/
|--- /usr/include/GL/
| /usr/include/GL/glxATI.h
| /usr/include/GL/glATI.h
|--- /usr/include/X11/
|--- /usr/include/X11/extensions/
| /usr/include/X11/extensions/fglrx_gamma.h
| /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1 - libGL.so.1.2
| Safely unmerging already-installed instance...
|--- !mtime obj /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1.2
|--- !mtime obj /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.la
|--- !mtime obj /usr/lib/modules/linux/libfglrxdrm.a
|--- !mtime obj /usr/lib/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.o
|--- !mtime obj /usr/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so
|--- !mtime obj /usr/lib/modules/dri/atiogl_a_dri.so
|--- !mtime obj /usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0
|--- !mtime obj /usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.a
|--- !mtime obj /usr/include/X11/extensions/fglrx_gamma.h
|--- !mtime obj /usr/include/GL/glxATI.h
|--- !mtime obj /usr/include/GL/glATI.h
|--- !mtime obj /opt/ati/bin/fglrxinfo
|--- !mtime obj /opt/ati/bin/fglrxconfig
|--- !mtime obj /opt/ati/bin/fglrx_xgamma
|--- cfgpro obj /lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r4/video/fglrx.ko
|--- cfgpro dir /lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r4/video
|--- cfgpro dir /lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r4
|--- !mtime obj /etc/env.d/09ati
|--- cfgpro dir /etc/env.d
Interestingly enough, only 3 of the 7 files in /usr/X11R6/bin in the RPM
that are eventually installed to /opt/ati/bin were updated: fglrxinfo,
fglrxinfo, and fglrx_xgamma.
I know that fglrx_glxgears and fireglcontrol are installed by
ati-drivers-extra, so I re-emerged that as well:
| Merging media-video/ati-drivers-extra-8.18.6 to /
|--- /opt/
|--- /opt/ati/
|--- /opt/ati/bin/
| /opt/ati/bin/fireglcontrol
| /opt/ati/bin/fgl_glxgears
|--- /usr/
|--- /usr/share/
|--- /usr/share/applications/
| /usr/share/applications/fireglcontrol.desktop
|--- /usr/share/pixmaps/
| /usr/share/pixmaps/ati.xpm
So this means that there are *two* files in the /usr/X11R6/bin folder in
the RPM that are not installed by the ebuild:
aticonfig
fglrx_pplay (whatever that may be)
Now this looks very much like a bug in the ebuild to me, but I'm also
kinda p.o.'d by the whole ATI situation (morrowind fails to run with
these drives, apparently), I don't feel all that well (another cold),
and I just don't want to charge onto b.g.o. and risk pissing off the dev
team with something along the lines of 'you guys suck!' (first, because
they don't, and second, because I like to save my rudeness points for
situations where they might do some good, rather than just waste them
because my judgement is temporarily poor).
So I don't quite know what to ask any interested parties on the list to
confirm, but 1) does anybody who might have installed the new
ati-drivers package actually have the 'aticonfig'
