Re: ati radeon 9600 problem
Hi Rob, I have found this doesn't work. libGL.so.1.2 is protected from libmesa-gl upgrades, but libGL.so.1 gets screwed up: Interesting... I was about to reply works for me but make a little note on my web pages that perhaps things weren't as simple as I thought, but I've had a chance to think about it some more. I don't fglrx any more (the radeon drivers worked better for me with xinerama) but this may perhaps explain why I was having some unusual screen corruption with gtk apps. FYI, my understanding of library versioning is as follows: the .so .so.1 .so.1.2 etc will often all point to the same file. If a program asks for .so it is asking for the latest version of the library. If it asks for .so.1 it is asking for the latest version of the library with the particular API defined in version 1. Similarly, .so.1.2 asks for release 2 of version 1. Etc. Do you see any side effects from this mess-up of the symlinks? I guess the problem is that fglrx packages (via alien) don't have libGL.so.1 in them. Based on my above understanding, I don't believe they should... and neither to the rpms. The problem appears to be in the post-install scripts to link the libraries. One solution would be to run (as root) ldconfig, which would regenerate the symlinks for you. But at this stage, we are reinventing a wheel... These issues have (presumably) all been hammered out in Flavio's ATI installer. While I haven't tried it myself, I keep hearing goo things about it. I consider the previous ways I described and the ATI instructions to be deprecated methods for installing the ATI driver. Actually, my view is that the ATI methods aren't just 'deprecated' for Debian, they're dangerous. http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html regards Stuart -- Stuart Prescott www.nanoNANOnano.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ati radeon 9600 problem
I'm also in trouble. I have an Ati Radeon 9600 and when I run apt-get update I'm told The following packages have unmet dependencies: etc... After I read your email I start thinking that something could be related to the video card? Does anyone have an idea? Thanks Giorgio Raccanelli Ivan Glushkov wrote: Hi List, I was trying to install on my laptop the driver from ati for Ati Radeon 9600, it was unsuccessful, but not that is tyhe main problem. The main problem is that it has changed something, and now every time I try to apt-get some package, I get: #apt-get upgrade . The following packages have unmet dependencies: xlibmesa-gl-dev: Depends: xlibmesa-gl (= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8) but 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 is installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. #apt-get -f install The following extra packages will be installed: xlibmesa-gl Suggested packages: libglide3 The following packages will be upgraded: xlibmesa-gl . Unpacking replacement xlibmesa-gl ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa-gl_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.d eb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2', which is also in package fgl rx dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa-gl_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) trying to remove package fglrx or xlibmesa-gl is resulting in unsolver dependancies. I renamed the file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2, and it still complanes the same way. Any ideas? Cheers, Ivan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ati radeon 9600 problem
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:51:49PM +0100, Ivan Glushkov wrote: Hi List, I was trying to install on my laptop the driver from ati for Ati Radeon 9600, it was unsuccessful ... ... Unpacking replacement xlibmesa-gl ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa-gl_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2', which is also in package fglrx dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa-gl_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The .deb from ATI is a bit dodgy in this respect, in that it *wants to* supply a new version of LibGL. Apparantly, this has radeon-specific optimisations or something. You *can* get around it by: # dpkg --install --force-overwrite fglrx*.deb (I cannot remember the full name of the flgrx deb - substitute as necessary...) followed by: # apt-get -f install to fix things up. Note that this still represents a serious breakage in ATI's flgrx package. Next time you come to upgrade xlibmesa you probably have to force the installation of xlibmesa (as above) followed by a re-install of the flgrx package... The proper solution would probably be to omit libGL from the fglrx package or get them to use update-alternatives. But with fglrx being non-free the chances of this are slim... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of trash. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: ati radeon 9600 problem
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:27:25AM +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote: The fglrx .deb file produced by alien creates a file conflict so dpkg then refuses to upgrade libmesa etc later. Instructions in other posts will fix things for you. But for the benefit of others rather than following the ATI instructions, do the following (from http://www.nanonanonano.net/linux/debiannx7010 :) # alien fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6.i386.rpm # dpkg-divert --package fglrx --divert /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2.libmesa-gl \ /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 # dpkg -i fglrx_4.3.0-4.7_i386.deb I have found this doesn't work. libGL.so.1.2 is protected from libmesa-gl upgrades, but libGL.so.1 gets screwed up: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 681072 Sep 28 06:09 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Oct 10 08:02 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so - libGL.so.1.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 3 20:47 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 - libGL.so.1.2.distrib -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 798658 May 11 2004 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 437344 Sep 28 06:09 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2.distrib The distrib version is libmesa-gl's. I've tried also diverting libGL.so.1, but it doesn't help: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Oct 10 08:02 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.distrib - libGL.so.1.2 I guess the problem is that fglrx packages (via alien) don't have libGL.so.1 in them. -- Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ati radeon 9600 problem
Hi List, I was trying to install on my laptop the driver from ati for Ati Radeon 9600, it was unsuccessful, but not that is tyhe main problem. The main problem is that it has changed something, and now every time I try to apt-get some package, I get: #apt-get upgrade . The following packages have unmet dependencies: xlibmesa-gl-dev: Depends: xlibmesa-gl (= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8) but 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 is installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. #apt-get -f install The following extra packages will be installed: xlibmesa-gl Suggested packages: libglide3 The following packages will be upgraded: xlibmesa-gl . Unpacking replacement xlibmesa-gl ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa-gl_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.d eb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2', which is also in package fgl rx dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa-gl_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) trying to remove package fglrx or xlibmesa-gl is resulting in unsolver dependancies. I renamed the file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2, and it still complanes the same way. Any ideas? Cheers, Ivan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
