fglrx won't initalise DRI

Felipe Alfaro Solana felipe.alfaro at gmail.com
Sat Sep 30 15:44:50 UTC 2006


On 9/30/06, m c <markc.lists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Aha, solved it in two parts, firstly due to being a complete idiot I
> didnt notice linux-restricted-modules wasn't installed. This is a bad
> thing. After that there was still a problem that libgl was looking for
> fglrx_dri.so in compltely the wrong place so I had to add
> export LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib/dri
> to /etc/profile

Did you install FGLRX from the Ubuntu repos or from the ATI website?
I'm using FGLRX drivers from the Ubuntu repo and didn't have to make
any modifications to environment variables or files.

> Hope this helps anyone else, although I doubt anyone else would be
> quite that stupid

Thanks for the update!




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