[Pkg-fglrx-devel] 32bit OpenGL applications don't work on amd64

[Andreas Beckmann]

Hi Jason,

please resend this through the BTS, so that we get a bug report for this
issue.

Is testing with glxinfo (from mesa-utils) sufficient to show the problems?

Andreas

On 2012-08-04 20:46, Jason Morawski wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a bug or a setup issue, but I am unable to run
> applications that use 32bit OpenGL libraries. This problem began after
> upgrading to fglrx-driver (1:12-6+point-1)
> 
> I installed the multiarch library packages for libfglrx:i386 and
> libgl1-fglrx-glx:i386 thinking that it would resolve my issue, but it
> did not. My problem still persists.
> 
> After doing some searching, I found bug #614805 which states:
> 
> "32 bit applications that use libgl1 don't work. libgl1 searches in
> /usr/lib/dri but it has to search in /usr/lib32/dri. The effect is no 3d
> hardware acceleration in the 32 bit applications. I use the free ati
> driver and i think, all other free dri drivers will have this bug too,
> because libgl is the cause. FGLRX is not affected, because it comes with
> it's own libgl1, wich is configured right to search in
> /usr/lib32/fglrx. I can't tell anything about non-free nvidia.
> You can set LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib32/dri to make 32 bit
> applications work. But than 64 bit applications that use libgl1 don't
> work because the 64 bit dri directory is /usr/lib/dri and not
> /usr/lib32/dri. So this is truely a bug!"
> 
> Even though the bug says that FGLRX is not affected, it seems that I am
> experiencing the same issue with applications being unable to load the
> 32bit OpenGL libraries. Perhaps someone can shed some light on this. I
> can provide additional information about my environment if needed.
> 
> Thank you.
> Jason Morawski
> 
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