diff --git a/xorg-x11-libs.changes b/xorg-x11-libs.changes
index 3455269..e8d9768 100644
--- a/xorg-x11-libs.changes
+++ b/xorg-x11-libs.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jan 16 11:25:52 CET 2012 - sndirsch@suse.de
+
+- provide fake libxcb-atom.so.1 (bnc #741465) for older openSUSE
+  releases since it apparently vanished with xcb-util 0.3.8 :-(
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Jan  7 18:02:53 UTC 2012 - chris@computersalat.de
 
diff --git a/xorg-x11-libs.spec b/xorg-x11-libs.spec
index 310f5a1..2bd9041 100644
--- a/xorg-x11-libs.spec
+++ b/xorg-x11-libs.spec
@@ -23,9 +23,11 @@ BuildRequires:  fdupes fontconfig-devel freetype2-devel gperf libXi6-devel libex
 %ifarch ppc64 s390x x86_64
 Provides:       libXaw.so.8()(64bit) libXaw.so.7()(64bit) libXaw.so.6()(64bit)
 Provides:       libXaw8.so.8()(64bit) libXaw7.so.7()(64bit) libXaw6.so.6()(64bit)
+Provides:       libxcb-atom.so.1()(64bit)
 %else
 Provides:       libXaw.so.8 libXaw.so.7 libXaw.so.6
 Provides:       libXaw8.so.8 libXaw7.so.7 libXaw6.so.6
+Provides:       libxcb-atom.so.1
 %endif
 # bug437293
 %ifarch ppc64
@@ -144,6 +146,14 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/*.la
 # for compatibility reasons
 ln -s libXaw7.so.7 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libXaw8.so.8
 ln -s libXaw.so.7  $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libXaw.so.8
+# create fake libxcb-atom.so.1 (bnc #741465)
+> xcb-atom.c
+gcc -Wall -ansi -pedantic -c xcb-atom.c -fPIC
+gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libxcb-atom.so.1 \
+   -o $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/libxcb-atom.so.1 xcb-atom.o
+%if %suse_version > 1110
+%{__rm} -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.la
+%endif
 %fdupes -s $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%_mandir
 
 %clean