/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 diversion is not good for switchable graphics

Bug #284509 reported by Eitan Isaacson
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fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I have a Thinkpad T400 with switchable graphics hardware (both integrated Intel, and discrete ATi).
Although xorg does not support on-the-fly switching, ideally it would be great that after a few rmmod/modprobes and a xorg.conf swap, I would be able to choose between the two chips for the next X session.

With the libGL.so.1.2 diversion that exists in fglrx-driver, it makes it a bit harder to have libgl1-mesa-glx and fglrx-driver to co-exist. Simply swapping chipsets does not work since the fglrx libGL is incompatable.

Switchable graphics will become more and more popular, and Thinkpads are already popular Linux machines.

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