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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: urgent : chicken-egg problem[SOLVED]
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:53:24
Message-Id: tkrat.5949d3519298a8ac@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: urgent : chicken-egg problem by walt
1 On 11 Nov, walt wrote:
2 > On 11/11/2009 01:22 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 >> Hi,,
4 >>
5 >> somehow one of my machines is broken.
6 >>
7 >> After uninstalling x11-drivers/ati-drivers
8 >> eselect opengl set xorg-x11
9 >> gives
10 >> Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface...!!! Error: No proper xorg-x11 or xorg-x11 opengl implementation found
11 >>
12 >> Trying to re-emerge media-libs/mesa fails during install
13 >> Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface...!!! Error: No proper xorg-x11 or xorg-x11 opengl implementation found
14 >> exiting
15 >>
16 >> and trying to re-emerge x11-base/xorg-server
17 >> fails because of missing file
18 >> /usr/lib64/libGL.so
19 >
20 > If the ati-drivers are like my nvidia drivers you many have a dangling
21 > symlink at /usr/lib/libGL.so:
22 >
23 > /usr/lib/libGL.so <----- This is a symlink to one of the two libs below
24 > /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so
25 > /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so
26 >
27 > Try pointing that symlink to the opengl version of libGL.so.
28
29 Thanks, this helped. I ran symlinks -dr on /usr
30 Initially this didn't help.
31 Once I've stopped the X server, I could re-emerge mesa which
32 fixed the problems.
33 Many thanks again,
34 Helmut.
35
36 --
37 Helmut Jarausch
38
39 Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
40 RWTH - Aachen University
41 D 52056 Aachen, Germany