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

["Jesús Guerrero" <i92guboj@terra.es>]

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.....

> The nvidia drivers sensibly block the latest xorg-server.

That's what blockers are for: they prevent incompatible packages from
being installed together, right? So you can choose what action of course
you want to follow. At least your system keeps working instead of throwing
you to a text console and greeting you with an undefined symbol message.

-- 
Jesús Guerrero