From: Marcio L. T. <ma...@ho...> - 2003-01-08 00:22:21
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On Tuesday 07 January 2003 05:01 pm, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > this is often caused if the wrong libGL.so is loaded. Maybe you have one > old libGL.so lurking around somewhere (typical non-working > configurations have one of them installed in /usr/lib and the other in > /usr/X11/lib - depends on the environment which one gets loaded...) Well, actually the problem may be bigger than that, since my distribution's original "libGL.so" files were not replaced at all. I noticed that when I unpack the "radeon-20021022-linux.i386.tar" file, there is a "dripkg/GL" directory, but nothing in it. Everything in the DRI user's guide seems to suggest that these files need to be replaced, but they certainly aren't anywhere in the binary distributions from dri.sourceforge.net. Is this a mistake in the packaging? Anyhow, I was able to get the card working with the closed-source FireGL drivers from ATI. In a couple of days I intend to wipe my Linux partition clear and start afresh with a new debian-based distro, so I may try the open-sourced drivers again if there is any solution to this libGL problem (actually, I'm hoping the new distro will be able to autodetect the card, but I think that's being too optimistic :) Marcio Luis Teixeira |