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Adaption of flavios fglrx packages for Ubuntu x86_64 version



Just for those interested:

For quite a long time (about four months) I was unable to play my 
favorite game, Neverwinter Nights, under Linux. Though I had installed 
the appropiate ATI drivers and fgl_glxgears was working fine, I had no 
3d acceleration in 32 bit compatibility mode which Neverwinter Nights 
needs.

After fiddling around for some time, I found the flaw in the 32bit 
version of the ATI provided libGL.so.1.0. This library needs a path 
patch as well as the 64bit version. Furthermore, I use Ubuntu, which is 
based on Debian but apparently not identical. Where Debian 
uses /emul/ia32-linux/... for the 32bit compatibility libs, Ubuntu 
uses /lib32, /usr/lib32 and so on.

I am not sure wether this is the right place, but I cannot think of any 
better to publish my work.

I adapted the package build rules for the amd64 architecture to the 
needs of Ubuntu 5.0.4 Hoary. The following patch is needed for this. 
Explanations on what I have done to the original fglrx-installer can be 
found in debian/changelog and my additional comments in debian/rules.

http://www.agv-gp.de/fglrx-hoary-amd64/fglrx-installer-8.16.20-2.ubuntu_hoary.patch.bz2

Just my 2 cent.

Greetings
Thorsten Müller