On 11 Nov, walt wrote: > On 11/11/2009 01:22 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi,, >> >> somehow one of my machines is broken. >> >> After uninstalling x11-drivers/ati-drivers >> eselect opengl set xorg-x11 >> gives >> Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface...!!! Error: No proper xorg-x11 or >> xorg-x11 opengl implementation found >> >> Trying to re-emerge media-libs/mesa fails during install >> Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface...!!! Error: No proper xorg-x11 or >> xorg-x11 opengl implementation found >> exiting >> >> and trying to re-emerge x11-base/xorg-server >> fails because of missing file >> /usr/lib64/libGL.so > > If the ati-drivers are like my nvidia drivers you many have a dangling > symlink at /usr/lib/libGL.so: > > /usr/lib/libGL.so <----- This is a symlink to one of the two libs below > /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so > /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so > > Try pointing that symlink to the opengl version of libGL.so.
Thanks, this helped. I ran symlinks -dr on /usr Initially this didn't help. Once I've stopped the X server, I could re-emerge mesa which fixed the problems. Many thanks again, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
