ATI Radeon9800

David McCormick dvdbtty at netscape.net
Sun Apr 11 12:13:39 UTC 2004


Thanks I thought about doing that but wasn;t sure if I needed to remove 
the whole package.

David


jos at xos.nl wrote:

>On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 06:51:23AM -0400, David McCormick wrote:
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>>i followed the thread that Andy Hall started and did what could be found 
>>in regards to installing the ATI drivers.  I received an error message 
>>that  /usr/X11R6/lib/libgl.so.1.2 from the Ati package conflicts with 
>>XFree86-Mesa-libgl-4.3.0-42. I could not find the XFree86 file in order 
>>to remove it. Can anyone point me to the right location.  The  system 
>>still freezes at the user entry screen..
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>Remove the XFree86 package: "rpm -e XFree86-Mesa-libGL", as the Mesa
>libGL will to be replaced by the ATI HW-based libGL.
>
>In fact, the ATI rpm should probably have an "Obsoletes: XFree86-Mesa-libGL",
>but as third-party vendors try to build packages for allLinux distros *and*
>they usually don't know much about proper packaging (what the ATI rpm does
>in it pre/post-(un)install scripts is too ugly to talk about, this is not
>done :-(.
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