Ati library hell

[oaul]

I am trying to install 8.39.4 of ati;s linux driver. I used to use 8.37.6 and it worked perfectly. I now that the difference in pretty much all of amd's linux drivers is nonexistant, but i would like to get to the bottom of this.

After i do the whole deb installation, i get the much-discussed mesa reported from fglrxinfo. People seem to claim that misplaced libGL.so.x are the cause of this. ldd `which fglrxinfo` tells me that the libGl it is looking for is in /usr/lib/xorg/

So naturally i included the libGL from the debian/etch deb i generated from ati and it still doesn't work... I also did all the symbollic linking that people say to do on ati installation how-to's..

I am totally stumped. If anyone has any clues let me know. Thanks.

[oaul]

Solution found. I think for such a lame issue this should be pointed out to anyone else having trouble.

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep fglrx
showed that the module version of my fglrx.ko was NOT what I built. Therefore, I had two fglrx.ko's lying around. How many?:

#updatedb
#locate fglrx.ko
(TWO fglx.ko-s in /lib/modules/`uname -r` - pick one)
#mv <picked .ko> /some/backup
#rmmod fglrx
#modprobe !$
(If it results in FATAL: not found use insmod)
(Restart X)
#cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep fglrx
(if that didn't work restore picked .ko and try other one).