Backtrack-ati installation

[mister|x]

Hi guys,

I was trying to install the backtrack-ati packages to execute pyrit with ATI-Stream GPU but I got some error.
I am using Bt4 final and my AtI card is HD4530.
Can you please help me...

root@bt:~# apt-get install backtrack-ati
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
ati-driver atistream cpyrit-stream
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ati-driver atistream backtrack-ati cpyrit-stream
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 30.2MB of archives.
After this operation, 136MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get:1 SUN Backtrack Linux Repository pwnsauce/microverse ati-driver 9.5-bt2 [17.8MB]
Get:2 SUN Backtrack Linux Repository pwnsauce/microverse atistream 1.4.0-bt2 [12.4MB]
Get:3 SUN Backtrack Linux Repository pwnsauce/microverse cpyrit-stream 0.2.2-bt2 [42.0kB]
Get:4 SUN Backtrack Linux Repository pwnsauce/microverse backtrack-ati 2.0-bt0 [742B]
Fetched 20.4MB in 4min57s (68.7kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package ati-driver.
(Reading database ... 225594 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ati-driver (from .../ati-driver_9.5-bt2_i386.deb) ...
Replacing files in old package libgl1-mesa-glx ...
Replacing files in old package xserver-xorg-core ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ati-driver_9.5-bt2_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libGL.so', which is also in package libgl1-mesa-dev
Selecting previously deselected package atistream.
Unpacking atistream (from .../atistream_1.4.0-bt2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package cpyrit-stream.
Unpacking cpyrit-stream (from .../cpyrit-stream_0.2.2-bt2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package backtrack-ati.
Unpacking backtrack-ati (from .../backtrack-ati_2.0-bt0_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/ati-driver_9.5-bt2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Thanks!

[skinnypuppy]

You should have searched harder for the answer to this question:

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...ion-error.html

[mister|x]

yes you are right...but it seem there is no solution for this problem.

Can someone tell me if there is any workaround. Is it possible to dowload the ATI driver from ATI website and install them to backtrack linux?

ATI company is aware about this problem?

Thanks to all BT community...

[purehate]

Please check your PM box and follow the instructions to change your user name.

[gay-romeo2000]

Dear pure@te,

you seem to have the solution for this problem.

Would you be so kind and send me also a PM how to solve it?

Thx a lot

[mfBaranian]

@gay-romeo2000
You've misunderstood. Pureh@te was instructing mister|x to change his username.
For ati support we'll have to wait for kernel upgrade.

[halfdone]

So it really requires a kernel update to get ati driver?

[purehate]

I just received a ATI card in the mail which was donated by one of the members here. As soon as I have a chance I will be compiling and packaging the ATI drivers and the ATI stream for use with pyrit.

[mfBaranian]

I just received a ATI card in the mail which was donated by one of the members here. As soon as I have a chance I will be compiling and packaging the ATI drivers and the ATI stream for use with pyrit.

The community at it's best!
Thanks a bunch pureh@te. You really rock.
And cudos to the doner!

[bytemaster]

I just received a ATI card in the mail which was donated by one of the members here. As soon as I have a chance I will be compiling and packaging the ATI drivers and the ATI stream for use with pyrit.

Did you make any progress considering the ATI driver issues?

EDIT:
For now, if you are really desperate, you can install Ubuntu 10.04 onto a second partition and use the built in tool to install the ATI driver. Then proceed installing ATI Stream SDK as .deb package. You can find these by googleing for

ati-opencl-dev ati-opencl-runtime .deb

Then install pyrit and cpyrit-opencl by grabbing the latest svn version.
Results:

saucier@saucier-desktop:~$ pyrit list_cores
Pyrit 0.3.1-dev (svn r251) (C) 2008-2010 Lukas Lueg http://pyrit.googlecode.com
This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3+

The following cores seem available...
#1:  'OpenCL-Device 'Juniper''
#2:  'CPU-Core (SSE2)'

Anyway, I hope the backtack-ati package gets fixed soon.