Mika,

Pardon, please the OT, but, since that method works perfectly on my mission critical machines, but I am trying to build a test bed, will the deb packages work if one has upgraded to xorg 7?

If so, do the gl apps work?

I e, I need xorg 7, fglrx drivers, with all 3d working.

Best,
Martin

On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 21:05 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: 
* Werner Schuster (murphee) <werner.schuster@gmail.com> [20060525 20:39]:

>  I tried to get the  fglrx-kernel-2.6.16-grml drivers for ATI, but it seems 
>  like that creates problems with the install Mesa drivers, ie. I get the 
>  following error:

>  Unpacking replacement fglrx-driver ...
>  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx-driver_8.25.18-1_i386.deb 
>  (--unpack):
>   trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2', which is also in package 
>  xlibmesa-gl
>  dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

>  Could I remove the Mesa libs? Removing the Mesa package doesn't work, because 
>  that would remove half my system (even amarok depends on it).

>  What about removing the libGL.so.1.2 file, so that the fglrx can install its 
>  version; if the driver causes trouble, would this make my system instable?

The fglrx-driver package should take care of this and should add a
diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to
/usr/lib/fglrx/diversions/libGl.so.1.2.

This works for me:

  http://grml.org/tmp/gkrellShoot_05-25-06_210104.png

Are you using Xorg 7.0? Is you system up2date?
What does 'dpkg --get-selections | grep xlib' say?

The last method to solve the problem would be a 'dpkg -i
--force-overwrite ~deb/fglrx-driver_8.25.18-1_i386.deb'.

regards,
-mika-
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