[elrepo-devel] ATI driver
Phil Perry
phil at elrepo.org
Wed Dec 8 05:42:28 EST 2010
On 08/12/10 05:35, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> Phil Perry wrote:
>
>> What testing OS/Arch do people have available? If you have the ATI
>> drivers installed from the ATI installer, would you like to test just
>> the kmod package to make sure the kernel driver module works for the
>> time being.
>
> CentOS 5.5 x86_64 here ( with a 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI
> Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD 5600 Series] )
>
Great.
>>
>> Once I know what OS/Arch folks can test, I'll try to get those built and
>> available somewhere to test.
>
> Good, but how will you manage the fact that the ATI installer overwrites
> some files from [base] libraries (like mesa-libGL and/or mesa-libGLU, i
> don't remember now which one) ?
> That's something i'm interested in but i spend most of my $free_time on
> another project which has 6 in the name ;-)
>
Yes, nvidia does that too with libGL.
For the nvidia package, we simply put all the libs into their own
sub-directory %{_libdir}/nvidia and then add the path to
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/nvidia.conf for ldconfig to index against. We don't
touch the distro provided files.
I would propose trying the same approach for ATI.
We can then run ldd to check we are linked against the correct libs:
$ ldd /usr/bin/glxgears
libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib64/nvidia/libGL.so.1 (0x0000003188000000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x000000317d600000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 (0x000000317ea00000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x000000317da00000)
libnvidia-tls.so.256.53 =>
/usr/lib64/nvidia/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.256.53 (0x0000003184a00000)
libnvidia-glcore.so.256.53 =>
/usr/lib64/nvidia/libnvidia-glcore.so.256.53 (0x000000318de00000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6 (0x000000317f600000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x000000317de00000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000000317d200000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6 (0x000000317f200000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x000000317ee00000)
It would be useful if you could show the above on a system running the
ATI installer for reference so we have something to compare later.
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