Re: many in-tree xorg packages updated

[Sverre Froyen <sverre%viewmark.com@localhost>]

On Friday 12 June 2009 12:10:10 Nicolas Joly wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 03:42:19AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> >    I updated my amd64 laptop, and encountered some problems.
>
> [...]
>
> >    2) Trying to start the X server fails because of missing default `glx'
> >       module which does not exists anymore ...
> >
> > this shouldn't be fatal... i do see it myself, but i'm not sure what
> > is up.  i won't be able to look at this for a couple of days.
>
> Indeed. The real problem comes from libpciaccess which is not able to
> read the video bios for the intel driver ...
>
> root@nicodeme [~]# gdb Xorg Xorg.core
> [...]
> #8  0x00007f7ffa23a4a6 in i830_bios_init (pScrn=0x7f7ffb05f800)
>     at
> /local/src/NetBSD/xsrc/external/mit/xf86-video-intel/dist/src/i830_bios.c:2
>37 237         ret = pci_device_read_rom (pI830->PciInfo, bios);
>
> Looking at the code, pci_device_read_rom() is not implemented for
> NetBSD :(
>
> static const struct pci_system_methods netbsd_pci_methods = {
>         pci_system_netbsd_destroy,
>         NULL,
>         NULL,                        <--- read_rom()
>         pci_device_netbsd_probe,
>         pci_device_netbsd_map_range,
>         pci_device_netbsd_unmap_range,
>         pci_device_netbsd_read,
>         pci_device_netbsd_write,
>         pci_fill_capabilities_generic
> };

Do you have the latest libpciaccess?  0.10.6 (from pkgsrc) shows:

static const struct pci_system_methods netbsd_pci_methods = {
        pci_system_netbsd_destroy,
        NULL,
        pci_device_netbsd_read_rom,
...

That said, I cannot get the radeon driver to work.

Sverre