Re: HOWTO: module-assistant on amd64

[Alexandru Fomin <yo3fxy at spymac dot com>]

Hi,

Knut Auvor Grythe wrote:
[...]
>  * In the documentation on http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/ the
>    path /var/chroot/sid-ia32 is used throughout the examples for the
>    chroot, however the driver uses /emul/ia32-linux to store the ia32
>    libraries. I just did a 
>         mkdir -p /emul && ln -s /var/chroot/sid-ia32 /emul/ia32-linux
>    and the drivers were put where they should on my system. Perhaps the
>    packages should have a debconf setting for this path?

I had the impression that if you don't want to have a chrooted Debian
 i386 installed around, all you need to do to have an almost working
 32bit environment is to install the ia32-libs package, and this should
 be the debian-amd64 supported way.

If you have the extra disk space to spare and you install a boostraped
 i386 environment, I think you can also install the fglrx-driver
 package, directly from Flavio's site, inside the chrooted environment.
 (PS: I never used deboostrap or cdeboostrap and I do not own yet an
 amd64 system so I could be totally wrong here; please forgive me)

>
[...]
>   # Create the magic symlink so the driver finds the libs =)
>   ln -s lib /usr/X11R6/lib64

can you please try a different approach and let us know if it's working?

 - remove the symbolic link
 - add the following script to /etc/X11/Xsession.d:

# cat 70fglrx-libgl_driver_path
if [ `uname -m` = 'x86_64' ]; then

LIBGL_DRIVER_PATH=${LIBGL_DRIVER_PATH:+${LIBGL_DRIVER_PATH}:}/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri:/emul/ia32-linux/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri
        export LIBGL_DRIVER_PATH
fi
#

  - restart X
  - test both 64bit and 32bit applications and see if they work

Thx.

Alex