[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#683785: fglrx-source: Often hangs by using 3d

[Andreas Beckmann]

[please keep the bug Cc:ed]

On 2012-08-04 13:42, Pierre Bernhardt wrote:
> Am 04.08.2012 11:54, schrieb Andreas Beckmann:
>> Hi Pierre,
>>
>> On 2012-08-04 00:50, Pierre Bernhardt wrote:
>>> Package: fglrx-source
>>> Version: 12-3-1~bpo60+1
>> [...]
>>> With 12-6-2 release installation from unstable (allready not further available)
>>> I didn't have the problem so it looks like the problems are fixed.
>>> So please upgrade all related fglrx packages to a newer relese e.g. the 12-6-2.
>>
>> If I understood correctly, you are asking for an updated fglrx-driver
>> package (12-6) in squeeze-backports?
> Yes, I did.
> 
>> That will be wontfix, at least for now. AMD has dropped support for
>> anything older than Radeon HD 5000 in the 12-6 beta release - so this
>> driver is not going into backports unless we get fglrx-legacy-driver
> I understand that.
> 
>> (which supports only Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series, currently in NEW)
>> into backports first.
> Thats a good message.
> 
>> And the -ia32 packages have been turned into transitional packages for
>> good, I don't plan to revert this (for possible backports).
> In wheezy 12-6-2 the -ia32 packages working well. I got these from snapshot
> archive so at the moment these are manually installed by me with dpkg -i.
> So at the moment I have an well running system.

since ia32-libs in sid was replaced by a transitional package, we can no
longer build the old -ia32 packages in sid, so they have ben turned into
empty transitionals, too.

>>> Because of split packages (32 bit) to multiarch it is not further easy to use
>>> the unstable release.
>> So please use the driver from sid (which will hopefully get into wheezy)
>> and install the multiarch packages you need:
>>
>>   apt-get install apt/wheezy dpkg/wheezy
>>   dpkg --add-architecture i386
>>   apt-get update
>>   apt-get install libgl1-fglrx-glx:i386
> That is what I did more or less and which won't work for me.

If that does not work, write a bug report :-)
(don't add information here, different issues need to be tracked separately)

> Wheezy will get the multiarch, too?

yes

> Thank you for your answer.
> 
> Ich sehe gerade, da hätte ich auch in deutsch antworten können. Mein english
> ist nicht gerade das "Beste". Ich hoffe ich habe alles richtig verstanden
> und entsprechend geantwortet.

Ja, passt.

> Eine kurze weil ich es eben gerade erst gesehen habe: Wheezy != Testing?
> Muss ich jetzt doch mal nachforschen. Ich bin über die Upgrade-Pfade derzeit
> etwas verwirrt.

Heute:
stable = squeeze
testing == wheezy

Tag X: Release von Debian 7.0 (wheezy),

Danach:
oldstable = squeeze
stable = wheezy
testing == jessie (aka wheezy+1)

Andreas