Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@×××××××××.au> wrote:
>> > DRI requires kernel support - Device Drivers -> Graphics ->
>> Direct Rendering Manager, and you'll want to select the
>> correct ATI support under that.
>>
>> That's always been there, as modules.  If I modprobe for r128, it gets
>> loaded along with module "drm".  It makes no difference to the startx
>> behavior.
>
> Do the /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so and libdri.so files exist?

That directory has:
treat extensions # ls -l
total 220
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  17836 2009-05-25 09:04 libdbe.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     47 2009-05-25 09:15 libdri.so ->
//usr//lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libdri.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 125416 2009-05-25 09:04 libextmod.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     47 2009-05-25 09:15 libglx.so ->
//usr//lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  26024 2009-05-25 09:04 librecord.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  36428 2009-05-25 09:04 libxtrap.so
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root   4096 2009-05-25 11:10 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root   4096 2009-05-25 11:10 var

but /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions has NOTHING in it.

>
> For me,
> libdri.so is a symlink to /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libdri.so
> libglx.so is a symlink to /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so (since you havent run the eselect to repoint it yet, it will be set to /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so).
>
>> > Re: glx, what happens if you run 'eselect opengl list'?
>> >
>> there are two listed, ati and xorg-x11.  xorg-x11 is selected.
>
> If you're using flgrx you want 'eselect opengl set ati', but again I thought 2D would work fine without this.

Actually, I think fglrx is from ati-driver, which is for a different
card.  Anyway, I would expect X to start somehow.


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD