\o/ woot \o/
thy fglrx woes have been fix-ed!
for the curious reading now or later, I had to do quite a strange
process. Due I think to upgrading kernels, ati-drivers, and all-sorts
of things I had to delete some stuff manually:
1. uninstall ati-drivers
2. troll around the filesystem and delete anything with fglrx in
the name! There was lots of stuff
in /usr/lib, /usr/share, /etc, etc! Also
deleted /lib/modules/.../fglrx.ko
3. delete some broken lib links (that were pointing
to /someting/ati/something which no longer existed). These
included:
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
/usr/lib/libGL.so
4. ran `sudo eselect opengl set xorg-x11` which now worked
(wouldn't before)
5. reconfigure X for the kernel's radeon driver. restart X. DRI
wasn't working with the kernel radeon driver, so I had to
recompile the kernel, add drm, radeon, install, reboot a couple
of times
6. once glxinfo reported direct rendering, I then re-installed
ati-drivers
7. reconfigure X with fglrx module instead of radeon
8. run `sudo eselect opengl set ati`, restart X and voila!
Who would have thought it was so simple!
at last, I get some decent frame rates with the new driver. All my
screensavers work (no SHM issues as I was having before) no segfaults.
Aaaahhh, sweet. Let's hope it doesn't all change too soon!
thanks everyone for the tips,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
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