well thats it, someone posted to me that theres a symlink that i should check, except he copied and pasted from from another post that was dealing with Nvidia and not ATI, im still rather noobish but how do i know where does the libGL.so.1 symlink point to and how do i find the other libGL and make sure its the ATI one and not the MESA one
Jule Slootbeek wrote:
Debian-users,
another something i've been trying to figure out for a while. I have a nVidia GeForce MX 420 running the latest drivers, but whenever i try to run a opengl prog, like glxgears i get this:
jule@dolphy:~$ glxgears Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
Make sure that the libGL.so.1 symlink in /usr/X11R6/lib points to the real libGL.so.1.2 from nVidia (not the one from the xlibs-mesa package). I have had this happen to me (though with the ATI drivers instead of nVidia) when OpenGL apps would stop working after that symlink disappeared.
-Roberto Sanchez