Re: r128 driver, unresolved symbols, XF86 4.0.2-1
jingai wrote:
>
> > > hah, weird.. the "ati" driver works fine, and it is definitely
> > > accelerated.. .but the r128 driver won't load due to the unresolved
> > > symbols..
> >
> > The former r128 and radeon drivers have been integrated into the ati
> > driver, so r128_drv.o is only a submodule of ati_drv.o anymore. The
> question is
> > why r128_drv.o gets loaded directly in the first place. "r128" and
> "radeon"
> > in the Device Section should both load the ati driver now. I hope you are
> in
> > fact using the 4.0.2 XFree86 binary?
>
> Yep:
>
> colour:/home/jingai# X -version
>
> XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400)
> Release Date: 18 December 2000
>
> And I was specifying "r128" in the Device section before this release,
> which worked up until now. "ati" works fine though, so it's not a huge
> deal, but it's obviously a buglet, probably introduced when merging
> the two drivers.
I'm not sure. The merge happened before 4.0.1e so it was even in earlier debs.
BTW I forgot that you're also running on PPC; this is very interesting because
"r128" works for me. Now I'm very confused.
> Also, I have one more question regarding this release: I just installed
> Debian/sid onto a friend's system, who has an ATI RAGE LT PRO
> PCI card, and specifying "ati" in the Device section hangs his machine
> hard. Similar to what had happened to me a few releases back.
> Unfortunately, I can't look at the output from X because his kernel
> hangs before it can flush the cache to disk.
You could probably get a log by remounting the filesystem synchronously, but I
doubt it would be too helpful.
It's possible that he needs to rebuild using the rsync tree from Ani Joshi.
> BTW, I am using the latest BK development tree, and he is using
> Paul's stable (2.2.18). Also, his machine is literally identical to
> mine aside from the video board (both of us have a UMAX S900),
> although his video board *did* work in my machine some time
> back with an older XF4 release (it used to be my card).
Some Mach64 based chips cause problems with 2.2 kernels so he might need to
also use a 2.4 one or a patch from Michael Schmitz (check the -powerpc
archives).
Michel
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
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