[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#651775: Bug#651775: Fails to build for 64-bit kernel on i386

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 09:13 +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> Am 12.12.2011 06:04, schrieb Ben Hutchings:
> > Package: fglrx-modules-dkms
> >
> > Version: 1:11-11-3
> > Severity: important
> >
> > The i386 version of this package includes only the 32-bit build of the
> > proprietary driver code.  If the target kernel is 64-bit (e.g. the
> > Debian amd64 flavour), the driver fails to build:
> >
> 
> fglrx will never work on this crap mix of amd64 kernel and i386 
> userland, but there is no working conflicts which could be added

It's not crap, it's a generally supported and useful configuration.  If
fglrx-modules-dkms:amd64 was installable on i386 with amd64 as foreign
architecture, then I think this could be considered solved.  Possibly
fixing #693634 will do this.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson
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