Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-9.10 don't cooperate with xorg-server-7.1.0

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Mittwoch 28 Oktober 2009, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:59:59 +0200, Alan McKinnon
> <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 October 2009 12:45:27 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >> On 28 Oct, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> > On Wednesday 28 October 2009 12:05:21 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> This was working just fine:
> >> >>
> >> >> kernel 2.6.31-r3  + xorg-server-1.6.5 + ati-drivers-9.10
> >> >>
> >> >> Now
> >> >> kernel 2.6.31-r4  + xorg-server-1.7.1 + ati-drivers-9.10
> >> >> fail with
> >> >>
> >> >> (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
> >> >> dlopen: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined
> >> >> symbol:
> >> >>  resVgaShared (EE) Failed to load
> >> >>  /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Is there any fix already?
> >> >
> >> > Apparently not. The conflict lies in the ati drivers and you will
> 
> have
> 
> >> > to
> >> > wait for ATI to support xorg-1.7 before upgrading.
> >> >
> >> > There's a bug  on b.g.o. which I read last night that has more info.
> >> > Search for xorg-server, it's near the end of the list (clearly
> 
> marked)
> 
> >> Thanks for pointing this out to me.
> >> There should be a warning, since, as many others found out, as well,
> >> it's not that easier to step back to xorg-server-1.6.5
> >
> > "not that easy" ... now there's an understatement :-)
> 
> Well, it's truly not for the newbie, but it's not complicated either.
> After all, you are using ~arch, so.....

for me it was true horror because libxtst refused to build. I downgraded all 
the headers, and it failed and failed and failed.

Until I remembered that I have packages for everything.... usepkg can make 
life so much easier.