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[Peter Cordes <peter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

There seems to be a packaging bug in Catalyst that bites Ubuntu 9.10.

 I previously added comments to bug 464525, but ATI's Felix Kuehling
thinks that's actually a separate bug.  I also reported this to ATI
already: http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1695, where Felix got me
to try the --install method of installing the drivers, which worked.
(Thanks.)

 So I'm filing this new bug; I hope the tags I selected are ok.

On an AMD64 Karmic system, fglrx installs and works fine (2D desktop, and Xv), but OpenGL doesn't work:
peter@tesla:~$ fglrxinfo  -v
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual!

Visual ID: 23  depth=24  class=TrueColor
    bufferSize=4096 level=0 renderType=ci doubleBuffer=0 stereo=1258649631
    rgba: redSize=684153483 greenSize=0 blueSize=1258649631 alphaSize=0
    auxBuffers=0 depthSize=694153503 stencilSize=0
    accum: redSize=1258649631 greenSize=0 blueSize=694153503 alphaSize=0
    multiSample=0  multiSampleBuffers=0
    Opaque.
...(same garbage values in all the other visuals)

32bit processes have no problem, e.g.  nexuiz-linux-686-glx runs just
fine.  But any 64bit process won't find any usable Visuals, and fail.

 Installing Catalyst 9.11 with sudo ati-driver-
installer-9-11-x86.x86_64.run --install produces a fully working setup.
64bit processes work just as well as 32bit.  The packages built by ati-
driver-installer-9-11-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/karmic have the
amd64 problem, the same as Catalyst 9.10, and the fglrx-installer
2:8.660-0ubuntu4 packages shipped in Ubuntu 9.10.

 So, Ubuntu's currently-shipping fglrx is broken on AMD64, except for
running i386 programs (including wine, BTW).

 For more details and my xorg.0.log, see
http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1695

** Affects: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: 3d amd64 packaging regression-release

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OpenGL broken for amd64 (packaging problem)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486486
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