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Re: many in-tree xorg packages updated
2009/6/12 Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 02:27:38PM -0600, Sverre Froyen wrote:
>> 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:
>
> That's the one from xsrc.
>
>> static const struct pci_system_methods netbsd_pci_methods = {
>> pci_system_netbsd_destroy,
>> NULL,
>> pci_device_netbsd_read_rom,
>> ...
>
> Ah ... pci_device_netbsd_read_rom() comes from patch-ac.
>
>> That said, I cannot get the radeon driver to work.
>
> With the attached patch, X is back with the intel driver.
Worked for me on i386 (the same about the two drivers and no glx
extension, though).
> But i'm pretty sure this will break on non x86 archs.
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> --
> Nicolas Joly
>
> Biological Software and Databanks.
> Institut Pasteur, Paris.
>
Chavdar Ivanov
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