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Re: XFree86 4.0.1 not working



On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Robert Martinovic wrote:

> I don't exactly know what you mean by this comment.
> The task-x-window-system installed debs with 4.0.0-1
> suffixes.

Ok, just making sure :-)  I wasn't sure if the task- package had been
updated with the new dependencies yet.

> The errors are unresolved symbols from module
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a

Ok, is it showing that GLcoreModuleData is unresolved?  If so, it's
related to Edgar's problem (or is the same problem).

I just ftp'ed the precompiled modules tarball from xfree86.org and noticed
only one real difference: the .mdebug section is missing from the Debian
package's GLcoremodule.o (which is in the libGLcore.a ar archive).  I'm
wondering if the Xserver really uses the debug section.  If so, then we'll
need to not strip at least the modules.  Right now, I'm wishing that I had
kept a copy of the compiled source like I wanted to (needed the disc space
more, though).  At any rate, try downloading the Xmod.tgz from:

ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.0.1/binaries/Linux-alpha-glibc21/

and replace the libGLcore.a in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions with the
one from Xmod.tgz (make a backup copy of the debian one first so you don't
have to reinstall that package just to get the old file back).

I'm currently waiting on my laptop (Pentium) to finish a massive apt-get
run and will see if the i386's module also has similar contents in the
.data section.

Please let me know if you try the above and if it worked...if so, I'm
actually expecting a new X package to be uploaded soon, so I can try
recompiling it then (or, if not, I'll just do a recompile of the
existing).

C



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