* [gentoo-alpha] Trouble configuring Xfree 4.30 on ~alpha: won't return to text mode, unsupported relocation type errors
@ 2003-12-14 22:06 Allen Ziegenfus
2004-01-10 16:30 ` Aron Griffis
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From: Allen Ziegenfus @ 2003-12-14 22:06 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-alpha
I've been working on migrating my PC164LX from RH7.1 to Gentoo, and I've
been having a heck of a time with configuring X. Can anybody give me a
hint as to what to try next?
I have a PC164LX with SRM and a Matrox Millenium II video card. I've
compiled everything using ~alpha packages which gives me XFree 4.30.
Depending on how I set up my XF86Config-4 file, I get very different
results. Sometimes X doesn't come up at all. Sometimes X comes up fine,
but then when I exit X it won't return to text mode and I'm left with an
unusable blank screen, forcing me to reboot. I'm also getting hundreds
of these messages in my XFreelogs:
Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 10
When X doesn't come up at all I usually get this message:
(II) VGA: Generic VGA driver (version 4.0) for chipsets:generic
(WW) VGA: No matching Device section for instance(BusID PCI:0:5:0)
found
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
I get basically the same thing whether or not I specify the mga driver.
Nothing will come up at all until I specify the BusID of my card in the
Device section. (And yet, I only have one video card.)
If I do this, I eventually get X running fine. However, when
I try to exit X, the monitor won't return to text mode, and I just get a
blank screen. Sometimes this is accompanied by all of the lights on the
monitor blinking on and off, sometimes not. I can then either
ctrl-alt-delete or ssh in to reboot. Another funny thing is that when X
is starting up, it first brings up the video card init screen twice.
As to the relocation error message, I saw some posts about this message
that recommended upgrading XFree or gcc but I'm creating a new system
here so I'm already using the latest. The only funny thing that's
happened in my installation so far is that after I got the base system
configured, I was looking through some portage documentation and I did a
emerge -u world. This upgraded some of my glibc kernel headers, and in
the message that scrolled by it mentioned that I should also re-emerge
glibc. I did this, but then later I thought maybe that that got the
packages out of sync. So I ran some commands that I got out of a gentoo
forum to basically rebuild the entire system, including the kernel. This
didn't change anything(although it took about 3 days to do).
I tried gentoo out before about 6 months ago and I didn't have any of
these problems (although I think I was using alpha ebuilds instead of
~alpha).
Any ideas?
Allen
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* Re: [gentoo-alpha] Trouble configuring Xfree 4.30 on ~alpha: won't return to text mode, unsupported relocation type errors
2003-12-14 22:06 [gentoo-alpha] Trouble configuring Xfree 4.30 on ~alpha: won't return to text mode, unsupported relocation type errors Allen Ziegenfus
@ 2004-01-10 16:30 ` Aron Griffis
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From: Aron Griffis @ 2004-01-10 16:30 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-alpha
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Allen Ziegenfus wrote: [Sun Dec 14 2003, 05:06:27PM EST]
> I've been working on migrating my PC164LX from RH7.1 to Gentoo, and I've
> been having a heck of a time with configuring X. Can anybody give me a
> hint as to what to try next?
I'm sorry, I don't have an alpha with a Matrox card. You might have to
google around for help.
> Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 10
I get lots of these but X works fine. It would be nice to fix these
eventually, though. I'm not sure what modules are failing to load...?
Aron
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