Bug 174

Summary:	fglrx GL libraries are not found when xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs is installed.
Product:	Fedora	Reporter:	Jack Howarth <howarth>
Component:	xorg-x11-drv-fglrx	Assignee:	Stewart Adam <s.adam>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	kwizart
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	GNU/Linux
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Description Jack Howarth 2008-11-20 15:44:58 CET

After installing the  8.543-0.4.8.11beta.fc9 fglrx packages under i386
Fedora 9 using...

yum install kmod-fglrx

and enabling the drivers with the livna-display gnome tool, I find that
'glxgears -info' reports a very low framerate. This appears to be due to
the fact that while a fglrx.conf file is installed in /etc/ld.so.conf.d,
it appears that ldconfig is never called so that this library path gets
cached for ld. After manually executing ldconfig, the 'glxgears -info'
results are improved as expected.

Comment 1 Nicolas Chauvet 2008-11-20 16:04:41 CET

That's because you need to reboot.
It is /!/DANGEROUS/!/ not to reboot completely, because libGL apps might be in use. (and/or fglrx.ko got only installed for the lastest kernel)
You can have Xorg-server to collapse in the not so uncommon case. (and loose your work)

Comment 2 Stewart Adam 2009-03-05 21:00:59 CET

I'm going to close this since as kwizart mentioned, installing or updating the drivers without rebooting is not supported in the current setup (experimental support is in rpmfusion-config-display - see the review request for more details). This could also be a duplicate of bug 184... Either way, this issue has already been reported or is WONTFIX for now.