Re: XFree86 4.0.2 status
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 06:16:00PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:48:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > Bah.
> Oh maybe youre lucky. Hesaid X4.0 is next on his list, for powrpc though.
>
> > Put xserver-fbdev on hold, and upgrade as much of XFree86 as will upgrade.
> I reinstalled xserver-fbdev from 3.3.6 (should be functionally equivalent to
> your proposal?), edit my config a little (had to add a Driver line to the
> Framebuffer Device) and started xdm:
>
> XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400)
> Release Date: 18 December 2000
> [...]
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
> (II) Module XFree86 Font Renderer: vendor="XFree86 Font Renderer"
> compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a
> (II) Symbol memcpy from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a is unresolved!
> [...]
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11. Server aborting
>
> Same with startx. If I XF68_FBDev though (after removing Driver again,
> unknown keyword otherwise...) I do get X to run, but I don't get any window
> manager or xterm to start. Pretty useless. This try was with a remote ssh
> login, if I do it from the console, it simply crashes with signal 8. Weird.
>
> Anyhow, this does not look like a solution, since the modules are makeing
> trouble right now?
Could you try not stripping the modules? I recall alpha having a
similar problem.
Dan
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| Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 |
| Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University |
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