Re: ati radeon 9600 problem

From: Karl E. Jorgensen (karl_at_jorgensen.com)
Date: 12/03/04

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    On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:51:49PM +0100, Ivan Glushkov wrote:
    > Hi List,
    >
    > I was trying to install on my laptop the driver from ati for Ati Radeon
    > 9600, it was unsuccessful ...
    > ...
    > Unpacking replacement xlibmesa-gl ...
    > dpkg: error processing
    > /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa-gl_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb (--unpack):
    > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2', which is also in
    > package fglrx
    > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
    > Errors were encountered while processing:
    > /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa-gl_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb
    > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

    The .deb from ATI is a bit dodgy in this respect, in that it *wants to*
    supply a new version of LibGL. Apparantly, this has radeon-specific
    optimisations or something.

    You *can* get around it by:
        # dpkg --install --force-overwrite fglrx*.deb
    (I cannot remember the full name of the flgrx deb - substitute as
    necessary...)

    followed by:
        # apt-get -f install
    to fix things up.

    Note that this still represents a serious breakage in ATI's flgrx
    package. Next time you come to upgrade xlibmesa you probably have to
    force the installation of xlibmesa (as above) followed by a re-install
    of the flgrx package...

    The proper solution would probably be to omit libGL from the fglrx
    package or get them to use update-alternatives. But with fglrx being
    non-free the chances of this are slim...

    Hope this helps 

    -- 
Karl E. Jørgensen
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