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floatingman

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Registered: 2009-10-28

Posts: 6

Mplayer and VirtualBox error after installing ATI Drivers

I recently switched from the Open Source drivers for my ATI video card.  Since that time some programs are refusing to load.
I switched to the Catalyst repository to install the new drivers for my card.

The specific error message I get when running the mplayer in the terminal is

mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libdirectfb-1.4.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

the message for VirtualBox is

VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/opt/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: libdirectfb-1.4.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So far only 2 programs have been giving me this error are mplayer and VirtualBox.
I have tried reinstalling directfb and mplayer, but this doesn't fix things.

I have run ldd `which mplayer` and the following is missing
libdirectfb-1.4.so.0 => not found
libfusion-1.4.so.0 => not found
libdirect-1.4.so.0 => not found

I am running 64bit Arch.

Thanks for your help

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

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Re: Mplayer and VirtualBox error after installing ATI Drivers

nope. something else links to that. to find out which soname links do:

LD_DEBUG=files mplayer > log 2>&1

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floatingman

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Registered: 2009-10-28

Posts: 6

Re: Mplayer and VirtualBox error after installing ATI Drivers

Thanks

LD_DEBUG=files mplayer > log 2>&1

After running that, I discovered that sdl needed to be rebuilt. Once I did that, everything works fine.

Last edited by floatingman (2010-09-21 13:12:10)

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