Re: Trouble with Radeon 9600 and X.org 6.8.2 on AMD64

[Alexandru Fomin <yo3fxy at spymac dot com>]

Flavio Stanchina wrote:
> Alexandru Fomin wrote:
>
> > ATI's libgl library expects to find the dri modules in
> > /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri, so you must do a symbolic link [...]
>
>
> Alex, I almost love you. I forgot about that symlink.

you are welcome

> Anyone proficient with debconf and pre/post-installation scripts? Would
> you like to contribute changes for a question like:
>   "On AMD64, the fglrx driver requires a symbolic link... [details]"
>   "Shall we create such link now?"

just for the record, I like ubuntu's solution to this problem (you can
 take a look to the linux-restricted-modules-2.6.10 package) and I don't
 think Daniel Stone will have any objections on using it (hope we will
 not forget to give them credit for it if we will choose it).

and now some details about it: they install 64bit modules in
 /usr/X11R6/lib as we do, and the 32bit modules in /usr/X11R6/lib32;
 the LIBGL_DRIVER_PATH var is set automatically to the wright dirs on X
 startup through a script installed in /etc/X11/Xsession.d. It works
 with startx, but I don't remember/know if xdm & co. use those scripts
 when initializing X.

> As an alternative, could someone find out once and for all if that link
> is otherwise harmless so I can just create it without further question?