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Originally Posted by Samotnik
Just installed AMD fglrx 8.42.3 driver on my Debian system with XOrg 7.2 and 2.6.22 kernel, and got a strange problem. ...
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You've checked Xorg.0.log, right? Is everything good there, no errors & no significant warnings? fglrxinfo is showing:
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ...
OpenGL version string: ...
right? or does it say "Mesa"?
There was a problem with some of the Debian packaging scripts, the result of which was one of the symbolic links to libGL wasn't getting created. I'm using a "multilib" setup (which is essentially a 64-bit kernel with a complete 64-bit userland and a functionally complete 32-bit userland). On the 32-bit side, libGl.so.1.2 was installed, as was the symbolic link libGl.so (which -> libGl.so.1), but libGl.so.1 (which should have -> libGl.so.1.2) was created.
I created the link manually and every driver with which that was a problem worked fine from that point forward.
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Originally Posted by Brian1
If you move to 2.6.23 kernel tree you will have issue getting ATI to compile unless patched. I would stay in the 2.6.22 tree for now.
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Unfortunately, official 2.6.23 support has been lagging in flgrx; there is no release level verion of the driver, currently, that will compile at all w a 2.6.23 kernel.
I've seen a few patches kicking around; the one that seems to be the most prominent will (usually) get the current drivers to build against a 2.6.23 kernel, that's about all they do.
Hopefully, there will be 2.6.23 support in the next version of the driver.
Hope that helps.
- Larry