Oneiric 64-bit and AMD/ATI proprietary drivers

[Mark Greenwood]

On 11 Jan 2012, at 14:43, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:17 AM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 11/01/12 14:06, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:24 AM, O. Sinclair<o.sinclair at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Am about to officially give up.
>>>> 
>>>> I have an HP Pavillion dm4 laptop with the dreaded hybrid graphics, in my
>>>> case in Intel integrated and an ATI HD5450 "discreet" card.
>>>> 
>>>> On 11.04 I used 32-bit PAE and there it worked. But as I have 4Gb RAM
>>>> decided to opt for 64-bit when installing 11.10.
>>>> 
>>>> Most things work well, there are some fairly odd apps that are only
>>>> 32-bit
>>>> but I have no major problems (except new KDEPIM but that is separate
>>>> issue).
>>>> 
>>>> However - installing AMD/ATI Catalyst drivers fail one way or the other.
>>>> If
>>>> I do from "additional drivers" I just get a message it fails. If I do
>>>> from
>>>> Muon dito. If I use cli command apt-get or aptitude it can go all the way
>>>> to
>>>> configuration.
>>>> 
>>>> And that is where I get stuck whether I use downloaded from AMD package,
>>>> build packages, run the installer or whatever I do. Have been thru
>>>> countless
>>>> sites with instructions and forums.
>>>> 
>>>> The last step here is normally "aticonfig --initial -f" with or without
>>>> -f.
>>>> 
>>>> I either get an error "PowerXpress error: Cannot stat
>>>> '/usr/lib64/fglrx/switchlibGL': No such file or directory" or "no
>>>> supported
>>>> adapter present".
>>>> 
>>>> So finally my question here: has anyone managed to get the hybrid
>>>> graphics
>>>> with ATI/AMD working in 11.10 64-bit or are there ohters who have spent
>>>> (too
>>>> much) time installing and failing?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes, I have installed them.  I just installed these packages (using
>>> aptitude, should work with apt-get):
>>> 
>>> fglrx-updates
>>> fglrx-updates-dev
>>> 
>>> If you tried to install fglrx package from ATI (ie, manual install),
>>> you will have uninstall it first, and then cleanup the mess it leaves
>>> behind, basically, some broken symlinks... I had a problem with that,
>>> after I removed "manually installed" drivers, I was unable to install
>>> the official packages.
>>> 
>>> Oh, don't forget to install (if not already installed):
>>> linux-headers-generic (or whatever linux-headers you need for your
>>> current kernel), remember, this *have to* be the headers for your
>>> running kernel, and about any linux-headers will satisfy fglrx-updates
>>> dependency, but you need the one corresponding to your kernel, or it
>>> will fail.
>>> 
>>> I don't know on your system, but on mine, aptitude shows "duplicated"
>>> packages names, it looks like the "duplicated" is the 32 bits version,
>>> but I have had odd issues (like conflicts with *a lot* of packages
>>> when I try to install most of these), make sure to pick the correct
>>> one.
>>> 
>>> Now, I have had bad experiences with so called "hybrid graphics", in
>>> my case a ION-based netbook... in the end, I had to disable "discrete"
>>> graphics and leave only Intel enabled (because otherwise the netbook
>>> would get too hot, and drain battery real fast).
>>> 
>> 
>> Thanks, unfortunately exactly the same outcome:
>> 
>> "PowerXpress error: Cannot stat'/usr/lib64/fglrx/switchlibGL': No such file
>> or directory"
>> 
>> and for sure said "switchlibGL" is non-existent.
> 
> Interesting enough, this exists on my system, but here:
> 
> /usr/lib/fglrx/switchlibGL
> 

And I think that's they key to the whole problem.

Up until recently, a 64-bit system has /usr/lib64 for 64-bit libs and /usr/lib for 32-bit libs. This was changed so that on an up-to-date 64 bit system, /usr/lib holds 64 bit libs and /usr/lib32 has 32 bit libs. There is no /usr/lib64 on a recent ubuntu system.

I don't understand why the fglrx driver is trying to install things in /usr/lib64 - it shouldn't be. However you might be able to make it install IF you don't already have a /usr/lib64 directory

sudo ln -s /usr/lib /usr/lib64

then try the install again.

Mark


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