[Xorg] nvidia driver no longer works with current CVS?

[Stefan Dirsch]

Hi

I made a bugreport for this. Bug #868.

Stefan

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:19:25PM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 03:23:39PM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > I just updated to current CVS and recognized that the (binary-only)
> > nvidia driver for Linux no longer works with that version. Error
> > messages are:
> > 
> > Symbol vgaHWGetIndex from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> > Symbol vgaHWSave from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> > Symbol vgaHWRestore from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> > Symbol vgaHWUnmapMem from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> > Symbol fbCloseScreen from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> > Symbol fbWinPrivateIndex from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> > Symbol fbCreateWindow from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> > Symbol fbCreateGC from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> > Symbol fbGCPrivateIndex from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> > Symbol fbValidateGC from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> > Symbol fbPictureInit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> > 
> >    *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
> >    *** be the reason for the server aborting.
> > 
> > Fatal server error:
> > Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
> > 
> > I verified that the nvidia driver still works with CVS of 04-06-27,
> > but is at least broken with CVS of 04-07-07 and later. Simply using
> > the Xorg binary of 04-06-27 fixes the problem.
> > 
> > Anyone who is able to reproduce this? 
> 
> Looks like it can be reproduced.
> 
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> From: dave ! <ag051379 at hotmail.com>
> To: sndirsch at suse.de
> Subject: Re: [Xorg] nvidia driver no longer works with current CVS?
> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:08:22 +1000
> 
> Hi
> 
> I built xorg CVS this past weekend and got the same error's trying to
> use nvidia's driver. I'm not signed up for the mailing-list but feel
> free to forward this email there.
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> 
> > Any ideas which radical changes might be responsible for this?

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