latest git xserver fails to startx on x86_64

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 23:00:46 PDT 2009


On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Justin P.
Mattock<justinmattock at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave Airlie wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Justin P.
>> Mattock<justinmattock at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> with a quick glance, is this type of error due to
>>> something in the xserver, or is this
>>> something that I did with the build of either the xserver
>>> or nvidia
>>>
>>> dlopen: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so:
>>> undefined symbol: resVgaShared
>>>
>>
>> you seem to have accidentally binary driver.
>>
>> Dave.
>>
>>
>
> yeah, I was trying to determine if this
> was caused by a change in the xserver,
> or a problem with the build of nvidia.
> (creating a pure64 is a bit of a pain)
>
> From what it seems xf86-video-vesa
> activates the xserver.
>
> I think what I'll do is downgrade everything
> with the xserver(since nvidia seems to have
> an abi v5 and the xserver is at abi 7)
> just to be safe.
>

nvidia don't support master X servers usually until they are
released and shipping in Ubuntu.

Dave.



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