[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#639875: fglrx-driver: xorg-video-abi-11

[Tom Marble]

Way back on 4 november, Patrick wrote:
> 11-11 will be compatible with it, I just tested the next version.

ATI just released this version.  I tried building it with the
11-10 packaging and failed with errors like:

dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory arch/x86/etc
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory arch/x86/etc/OpenCL
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory arch/x86/etc/OpenCL/vendors
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file arch/x86/etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl32.icd
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file arch/x86/usr/lib/libOpenCL.so.1
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file arch/x86/usr/lib/libamdocl32.so
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory arch/x86/usr/bin
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file arch/x86/usr/bin/clinfo
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory arch/x86_64/etc
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory arch/x86_64/etc/OpenCL
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory arch/x86_64/etc/OpenCL/vendors
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file arch/x86_64/etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl64.icd
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file arch/x86_64/usr/lib64/libOpenCL.so.1
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file arch/x86_64/usr/lib64/libamdocl64.so
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory arch/x86_64/usr/bin
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file arch/x86_64/usr/bin/clinfo
dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to fglrx-driver-11-11/xpic_64a/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/glesx.so: binary file contents changed

I didn't have the patience to diff the new upstream format and so...

However I did install the ATI driver *directly* (with the side effect
that my filesystem is now corrupted with files not tracked by dpkg)
and the driver does indeed work.  I am now running on (unstable+experimental):
Linux ordi 3.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 14 08:02:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

There are some random screen flickers, but I am now enjoying Gnome 3.
(I have not tried fancy things like adding a projector, etc.)

Regards,

--Tom