dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so: undefined symbol: R128OptionsWeak

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:13 AM, James Ray <rjw at iscas.ac.cn> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I'm installing xorg7.2 on the Loongson/mips64 machine. Everything looks well. When I start X, ati driver can not be loaded. It looks like this:
>
>  ---------------------
>  X Window System Version 1.3.0
>  Release Date: 19 April 2007
>  X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
>  Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.23.8-1-rf64 mips64 Everest
>  time zone must be set--see zic manu mips64
>  Build Date: 26 February 2008
>  Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.3.0.0-50
>         Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>         to make sure that you have the latest version.
>  Module Loader present
>  Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
>  (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Mar 21 03:25:00 2008
>  (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
>  (II) Module already built-in
>  (II) Module already built-in
>  (II) Module already built-in
>  dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so: undefined symbol: R128OptionsWeak
>  (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so
>  (EE) Failed to load module "ati" (loader failed, 7)
>  (EE) No drivers available.
>
>  Fatal server error:
>  no screens found
>  XIO:  fatal IO error 131 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>  XIO:  fatal IO error 131 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>  startkde: Done.
>  ---------------------
>
>  When I find this symbol: R128OptionWeak, it shows:
>
>  ---------------------
>  nm --print-file-name /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/*.so | grep R128OptionsWeak
>
>  ati_drv.so:                  U R128OptionsWeak
>  r128_drv.so:00000000000066f0 T R128OptionsWeak
>  ---------------------
>
>  By the way, video card is ATI Radeon VE/7000 QZ (Radeon RV100 QZ).
>
>  Can you give me any suggestion? Thanks a lot.

Are you building xf86-video-ati from git?  We recently broke out r128
and mach64 into separate drivers.  Does specifying radeon rather than
ati for driver help?

Alex