After looking at the spec file for the srpm of ati-fglrx-8.14.13.1-0.lvn.5.4 I can see that it uses a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ati-fglrx.conf file to place the path /usr/lib/ati-fglrx/ in the front of the ldconfig paths so that the libGL.so.1.2 in that path is found first. I check with... rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2.backup ...and libGL.so.1.2.backup belonged to no rpm so I deleted it. For some reason the symlink for libGL.so.1 in /usr/X11R6/lib kept getting reset to it. Jack