On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 10:41:26AM +0000, rambo jr wrote:
> this is not making much sense,here what i have :
> #ls -l libGL.so.1
> lrwxr-xr-x libGL.so.1 -> /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/
Yes, this is useless. I don't know how libGL.so.1 got created as
a link to a directory, but it is a mistake. In my previous
e-mail, I suggested to run the following as root:
# ln -sf /usr/lib/opengl/xfree/lib/libGL.so.1.2 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
# ldconfig
This will make the soft link libGL.so.1 point to a shared library
file, which it what you need, and then the ldconfig command will
ensure that the system sees that it is there.
> #cd /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib
> #ls
> libGL.la
> #ls -l libGL.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Aug 26 00:00 libGL.la ->
> ../../xfree/lib/libGL.la
> # cd ../../xfree/lib/
> # ls -l libGL.la
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 777 Sep 6 11:25 libGL.la
This is all irrelevant. Files that end in .a or .la are for
developing software, not for running it.
> also these r the files i have in /usr/lib/opengl/xfree/lib
> #ls
> libGL.a libGL.la libGL.so libGL.so.1 libGL.so.1.2 libMesaGL.so
> ls -l libGL.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2
> ls -l libGL.so.1.2
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 581628 Sep 6 11:25 libGL.so.1.2
The libGL.so.1.2 is the file you need to be using. The command I
recommended above will make /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 point to
libGL.so.1.2 so that the system can find it.
> I am not sure if above lines makes any sense to anyone but I am _VERY_
> disappointed by this problem, not angry but disappointed, isn't all these
> files suppose to have installed when i did kde, isn't this something
> similar to rpm hell that we see in RH ,I think we can discuss this later
> on...i didn't expected something like this....if someone doesn't agery with
> me then pls tell me why iam not able to run kde once i did emerge kde?
> one more thing ..when i did emerge opengl there was this warning this line
> that i have noted down:
It seems there was a bug in one of the packages you installed
that made it create a useless /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 soft link to a
directory.
rpm dependency hell is actually referring to a problem where there
is nothing wrong with the rpm packages involved, but the rpm
package format is simply not very good at tracking dependencies,
so things don't work anyway. You're problem is appears to be the
result of a mistake made in one of the ebuilds.
> BEWARE 1
> The version of XFree won't work with ati-drivers-2.51-r1, if u r using them
> then please unmerge ati-drivers and emerge xfree-drm
Yes, you might want to "emerge xfree-drm" at some point if you
don't have it installed now. It will improve the performance of
your X performance some.
> so even though i have a ATI card i didn't install emerge ati-drivers or
> ati-gatos....and yes just to keep the topic on track i am able to run
> wmaker but not kde..
>
> RJ
>From the error message, it sounds like ati-drivers will not
work. I think you could install ati-gatos if you wish, and it
would probably add some functionality (like TV out possibly if
you have it) and improve performance more.
But you might want to try to just get it working with plain old
XFree, first.
- richard
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