general question: xorg & Nvdriver

[Florian Lier]

Okay - thank you both. I didn't know that this is an artifact - ergo 
useless.
But ... I'm again, at the beginning ...

Backtrace:
0: /home/fl0/mpxcompiz/bin/Xorg(xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x80e829b]
1: /home/fl0/mpxcompiz/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x51) [0x809ccb1]
2: [0xb80ea400]
3: /home/fl0/mpxcompiz/bin/Xorg(xf86SetDesiredModes+0x27b) [0x80ab18b]
4: /home/fl0/mpxcompiz/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nv_drv.so [0xb7bd612c]
5: /home/fl0/mpxcompiz/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nv_drv.so [0xb7bd6562]
6: /home/fl0/mpxcompiz/bin/Xorg(AddScreen+0x19d) [0x80684ad]
7: /home/fl0/mpxcompiz/bin/Xorg(InitOutput+0x23a) [0x808b12a]
8: /home/fl0/mpxcompiz/bin/Xorg [0x8068ba1]
9: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7c8b685]
10: /home/fl0/mpxcompiz/bin/Xorg [0x8068231]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

THIS drives me crazy.

fl0


Stephane Marchesin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 23:43, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Stephane Marchesin
>> <marchesin at icps.u-strasbg.fr> wrote:
>>     
>>> 2009/1/28 Florian Lier <fl0 at icram.de>:
>>>       
>>>> Okay, new problem:
>>>>
>>>> I tried to "insmod" the nvdriver...this is the result:
>>>>
>>>> insmod: error inserting 'drm/linux-core/nv.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>         
>>> There is no nv.ko module. There is a nouveau.ko module, an nvidia.ko
>>> proprietary module, but no nv module.
>>>       
>> There is an nv.ko, but it is a useless placeholder that exists for
>> unknown reasons.
>>
>>     
>
> It existed a couple of months before nouveau and was intended to help
> extend nv to do exa. However, this never happened. So technically
> today that module is useless. Maybe we should remove it from git
> someday.
>
> Stephane
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