Re: X11 and Elf_RelocateEntry()

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

>>>>> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 00:33:15 -0700, Richard Harke <rharke@earthlink.net> said:

  Rich> Its me again. Sorry. I'm not making these things up.  I got
  Rich> NVIDIA_kernel and NVIDIA_GLX built and I can modprobe nvidia
  Rich> and the only message is the political one.  (note: version is
  Rich> 1.0-4050, the only one NVIDIA has for ia64) I copied the
  Rich> XF86Config from my Xeon machine as it too has an nvidia
  Rich> card. Then I do startx, as a user. Bombs out.  Checking the
  Rich> log all is fine until:

  Rich> (II) Loader running on Linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II)
  Rich> Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
  Rich> Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 135

  Rich> The unsupported relocation type message repeats for a few
  Rich> hundred times (I didn't count) except the type alternates
  Rich> between 135 and 134 and occasionally becomes a series with 79
  Rich> as the number.

This is a known problem and happens when using GCC 3.2 with an old
XFree86 server.  Debian needs to upgrade to XFree 4.3.xx and then the
problem will go away.  Alternatively, you may be able to install the
old ("stable") Debian X server.

	--david