Bug 173080 – ati-drivers does not install fglrx_dri.so in /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 172239
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Anthony Russello 2007-04-02 04:17:04 UTC]

The ati-drivers package version 8.35.5 does not seem to install a symbolic link or the actual file for fglrx_dri.so.

To work around this issue and to allow dri to function on my Dell Inspiron 6400 (x64-64 using amd64 default profile), I had to do the following as root:

cd /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/
ln -s /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so fglrx_dri.soman fglrx



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. echo "x11-drivers/ati-drivers ~amd64" >> /etc/portpage/package.keywords
2. emerge -uD ati-drivers
3. startx
4. run glxinfo, note direct rendering is disabled
5. run xvinfo, note no screens found
6. cd /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/
7. ln -s /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so fglrx_dri.soman fglrx
8. restart X
9. run glxinfo, note direct rendering enabled
10. run xvinfo, note direct rendering enabled.

Actual Results:  
After emerge, no DRI was enabled.

Expected Results:  
Expected that DRI would be enabled and functioning.

emerge --info:
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Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.20.4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20.4 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7200  @ 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:30:09 +0000
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona "
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona "
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acpi alsa amd64 apache2 asf audiofile bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo branding browserplugin cddb cdparanoia cdr chardet clamav cli cracklib crypt cups dbus divx dlloader dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread encode ets evo exif ffmpeg firefox flac footmaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gimpprint gmedia gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal iconv imagemagick ipod ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg libg++ live mad midi modplug mp3 mpeg mplayer msn musepack ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl pam pcmcia pcre pda pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline realmedia reflection rss samba scanner sdk session sndfile sourceview spl ssl subversion tcl tcltk tcpd tiff timidity tk truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode urandom usb vorbis wifi wma wmp wxwindows x264 xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon fglrx vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
</snip>

See attachments for glxinfo and xvinfo reports after adding the symlink.

[Comment 1 Anthony Russello 2007-04-02 04:17:29 UTC]

Created attachment 115214 [details]
glxinfo output after adding symbolic link.

[Comment 2 Anthony Russello 2007-04-02 04:17:50 UTC]

Created attachment 115216 [details]
xvinfo output after adding symbolic link.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-04-02 06:22:04 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 172239 ***