ATI Drivers in Ubuntu

Waerner · 07-14-2005, 09:53 AM

Hi, I asked some things about this for a time ago, and more problems have appeard.

root@AMD64:/home/linus/Program/ATI # dir

ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run fglrx64_6_8_0-8.14.13-1.x86_64.rpm
check.sh fglrx64-6-8-0_8.14.13-2_amd64.deb

root@AMD64:/home/linus/Program/ATI # sudo ./ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run
sudo: ./ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run: command not found

root@AMD64:/home/linus/Program/ATI # ./ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run
bash: ./ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run: Access Denied

So then I tried the .DEB-file instead:

root@AMD64:/home/linus/Program/ATI # dpkg -i fglrx64-6-8-0_8.14.13-2_amd64.deb

(Reading database ... 86884 files and folders installed.)
Decompressing fglrx64-6-8-0 (from fglrx64-6-8-0_8.14.13-2_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: Error by the handling of fglrx64-6-8-0_8.14.13-2_amd64.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite "/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2" which is also included in xlibmesa-gl
dpkg-deb: Sub proceess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Error appeard under handle of:
fglrx64-6-8-0_8.14.13-2_amd64.deb

I've translated everything as good as I can - but I guess it doesn't says exactly the same on an Eng-version. And it's definitly not that many grammar faults, but lets stick to the problem

And if I try to remove xlibmesa-gl it says that it need to remove the alsamixergui, x-window-core (or something like that) etc, totally 40 packages need to be removed.

What to do?

pats · 07-14-2005, 11:34 AM

you have taken X windows down first right?

init 3
then
[ctrl][alt][F1]
log in as root
do what you have to do then
init 5
then log back into kde or whatever

you may have tried this already but i thought i'd mention it cos i made a similar mistake

Waerner · 07-14-2005, 03:47 PM

Code:


root@AMD64:/home/linus # init 3

(CTRL+ALT+F1)

Login: root
Password:

root@AMD64:/home/linus/Program/ATI # dpkg -i fglrx64-6-8-0_8.14.13-2_amd64.deb

(Reading database ... 86884 files and folders installed.)
Decompressing fglrx64-6-8-0 (from fglrx64-6-8-0_8.14.13-2_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: Error by the handling of fglrx64-6-8-0_8.14.13-2_amd64.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite "/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2" which is also included in xlibmesa-gl
dpkg-deb: Sub process paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

root@AMD64:/home/linus/Program/ATI # init 5

Same error as before :-/

pats · 07-15-2005, 06:57 AM

sorry that wasn't any help.
thats all i can think of. it seems like from the error output that the package is corrupted maybe. i don't know though because i haven't had much experience with debian based distros
good luck

hfawzy · 07-15-2005, 07:25 AM

First, backup /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 and then try this :

Code:

dpkg -i --force-overwrite fglrx64-6-8-0_8.14.13-2_amd64.deb

This will replace libGL.so.12 with the new one provided by the package you just installed.

Waerner · 07-15-2005, 08:22 AM

Thanks alot mate, the problem is now solved

I'm learning new things every day - but I'm still a Linux-n00b

Once again, thanks