Bug#622581: nouveau driver fails to load with error undefined symbol: miEmptyData

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2011-04-13 09:01 +0200, Itai Seggev wrote:

> Just installed new the kernel+drm+x11 in testing, and I get start x11.  It dies
> with a dlopen error complaining of an undefined symbol.

I suppose that is because you have outdated locally installed files.
Did you build nouveau from source some time in the past?

> [  1605.083] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
> [  1605.083] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/nouveau_drv.so

This file is not supposed to exist, the nouveau module from the Debian
package lives in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/.  Move
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/nouveau_drv.so out of the way and retry.

Regards,
        Sven