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Am Samstag 26 August 2006 06:45 schrieb Duncan: > Dieter Ries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > excerpted below, on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:03:41 +0200: > > i am just doing a world update, and in two packages up to now, the euild > > failed with some opengl errors i dont remember exactly. > > It's probably the known issue of being side-tracked by the wrong set of > headers. > > If you have the 32-bit X compatibility libraries installed, the detector > often detects those instead of the 64-bit libraries it should be building > against. Naturally, chaos ensues. <g> > > Also, as the bit at the beginning implies, they need to be built against > the xorg/mesa openGL interface, not some slaveryware video drivers you may > be running. Sometimes the automated switch to the open ones doesn't work > right and you have to switch manually. > > So, for the latter problem, try manually running eselect opengl list, then > eselect opengl set <number for xorg-x11). If it's screwed up, you may > have to try toggling it to something else then back to xorg. there is only xorg-x11 in the list, > > For the former problem, because the compatibility libs are pre-compiled > binaries, remerging them goes pretty fast, so rather than mess with > trying to get the detection order right, the easiest workaround is to > simply unmerge the compatibility libs so the detection will find the > proper 64-bit versions, then remerge the compatibility libs after you've > merged whatever was choking on them. i re-installt the nvidia drivers without 32bit compatibility, but it didnt work afterwards, either. i cheched if the /usr/lib64/libGL.so existed, but there was only /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 i linked it to /usr/lib64/libGL.so, and afterwards, emerge -avD libquicktime worked. but xdriinfo still fails with the same error as posted in the last email any ideas? > > Note that I don't run slaveryware so don't have any legacy 32-bit apps or > slaveryware drivers to worry about, and neither issue above has affected > me personally. I'm simply relaying what others have said worked for them. > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman cu Dieter -- Frank Castle is dead! Call me 'The PUNISHER'!
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