Running 32 bit 3d x apps on an x86_64 system?

[René Rebe]

Hi,

On Saturday 04 February 2006 18:07, Steve Bergman wrote:
> I am running CentOS 4.2 (xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20) on amd64 system
> running the x86_64 version of the distro.
> 
> I just moved from an NVidia card to a Radeon 9100 in order to be able to
> use the open source drivers.
> 
> glxgears works fine.
> 
> However, I do want to be able to play 32 bit games.  When I try to start
> one, however, I get the output below.  If I tell the games that software
> gl is ok, the game does come up, but is, unsurprisingly, quite slow.
> 
> Running it under strace reveals that it is looking
> for /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/r200_dri.so and not finding it.
> (Although /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/r200_dri.so does exist.)
> 
> Are there some 32 bit compatibility libs or something that I need?

Yes, you need the 32bi version of the r200_dri.so in that directory where it
is looking at. Even if it would look into lib64 it would not be able to load it.

Yours,

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