Oneiric 64-bit and AMD/ATI proprietary drivers

[tv.debian at googlemail.com]

11/01/2012 21:31, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:51 PM, tv.debian at googlemail.com
> <tv.debian at googlemail.com>  wrote:

>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> fglrx-updates
>>>>>>>> fglrx-updates-dev
>>
>>
>> Hi, taking the thread from here since I missed the beginning. I would stay
>> away from those packages, they are broken and will break your system. You
>> should try to *purge* all fglrx related packages, then reinstall
>> libgl1-mesa-glx and libgl1-mesa-dri (you will see that update-alternatives
>> is correcting dead links errors), and only then install the fglrx packages,
>> NOT the "updates" ones. I had trouble with this packages on all my AMD
>> systems (amd64).
>
> These are working just fine for me.  My A8 CPU won't work correctly
> with the plain fglrx packages.  I can't remember what happen when I
> installed from ATI site (some odd problems).  Anyway, fglrx-updates
> packages works fine for me (and have been working correctly for a few
> months now, and I have gone through at least one upgrade for these
> packages).

Interesting to read that they are working for you, I did two install 
today and jockey failed on both computers for fglrx-updates. After 
purging all fglrx* package I noticed from update-alternatives warning 
broken libgl links, and couldn't get radeon to work. After reinstalling 
libgl1-mesa* packages radeon ran fine, and finally I was able to install 
fglrx (no -updates) with jockey or apt-get.
Same happened about two weeks ago with another computer.

Are you on amd64 ? Do you use "proposed-updates" ? (I don't)