sunffb wont load

Michael Lorenz macallan at netbsd.org
Thu Jun 8 22:05:56 PDT 2006


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Hello,

> i would greatly appreciate some help with the following problem:
> since i use xorg on my sun (running debian), window managers, xdm and
> the like wont work. the xorg.0 log file states that the sunffb
> monitordriver wont load, the man page of said driver states that it
> needs to be filled in, and that's where i'm stuck. the xorg.0 log, with
> all parts but the ones with warnings or error messages snipped, is 
> attached.

> (II) LoadModule: "sunffb"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sunffb_drv.so
> dlopen: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sunffb_drv.so: undefined 
> symbol: cfbCopyPlane8to1
> (EE) Failed to load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sunffb_drv.so
> (II) UnloadModule: "sunffb"
> (EE) Failed to load module "sunffb" (loader failed, 7)

This is the problem. sunffb depends on the cfb module to be loaded, 
XFree86 used to load it unconditionally on startup, xorg no longer does 
that.
I fixed this ( and a few other things ) for NetBSD/sparc64, if anyone's 
interested I'll post a patch.

have fun
Michael
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