[Xorg] 'nv' driver, autotooled for xserver

[max.muermann at logicacmg.com]

Hi List,

I'm new to this, so first up thanks for all the good work ;)

System environment: Dell Precision M50 laptop, Debian unstable, Nvidia Quadro4 
500 GoGL video card (64MB), which works nicely under Xfree with nv and nvidia 
drivers.

I got the latest xserver tarball (can't get to CVS thanks to the stupid 
security policy), noticed that apparently the patches to the build system are 
already in, and did the following:

./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/fdo --enable-xorgserver --disable-kdriveserver

(took me a while to figure that last one out...)

Got a bunch of compilation errors in hw/xorg/os-support/linux/int10/linux.c, 
complaining about missing open(), O_RWRD, errno and close(), which I got rid 
of by adding 

#include "errno.h"
#include "unistd.h"
#include "fcntl.h"

to linux.c.

Starting xserver with

sudo /opt/fdo/bin/Xorg -nolisten tcp -ac :1 

results in videocard (Nvidia Quadro4 500 GoGL) being identified, the screen 
goes black, so I assume the video card is being initialised.
The whole thing then stops with a Signal 11. The last lines from the log are:

(==) NV(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NV(0): Silken mouse enabled
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) NV(0): DPMS enabled
(==) RandR enabled

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

On the console, after "(==) Using config File ..." and before "Fatal Server 
Error" there is another line:

fbdev trace: probe start

Does anybody have an idea what might be going wrong? Is there any way to get 
more debug output out of the server? 

Cheers,
Max

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 01:15 pm, Chris Lee wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I've autotooled the 'nv' driver from the monolithic Xorg tree, and tossed
> it into the xserver/hw/xorg/drivers directory. I've added the driver to
> CVS, but I haven't committed the patch to the build system to enable it to
> be included in the actual Xorg binary.
>
> With this driver installed, the Xorg binary successfully finds my GeForce4
> MX440, initializes it, and runs beautifully.
>
> The patch to the build system is available at:
>
> http://c133.org/files/Xorg-buildsystem.diff
>
> Is it ok to commit that patch and enable the 'nv' driver?
>
> -clee
>
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