From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N36ij-0007N7-Is for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:29:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB4A7E09A7; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:29:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPaqm4.telefonica.net (impaqm4.telefonica.net [213.4.129.24]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA46E09A7 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:29:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPmailhost3.adm.correo ([10.20.102.124]) by IMPaqm4.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id yBCz1c0SJ2h2L9m3QBVe3b; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:29:38 +0100 Received: from jesgue.homelinux.org ([78.136.66.163]) by IMPmailhost3.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id yBVL1c0073XLmEe1jBVbST; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:29:38 +0100 X-TE-authinfo: authemail="i92guboj.terra.es" |auth_email="i92guboj@terra.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitera01" Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:29:17 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Jes=C3=BAs_Guerrero?= To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-9.10 don't cooperate with xorg-server-7.1.0 In-Reply-To: <200910281259.59376.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <200910281212.32885.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200910281259.59376.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Message-ID: <906f3306d8e90ac6835f42d8abc9d1c2@localhost> X-Sender: i92guboj@terra.es User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.3-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 36635a24-7e0b-45a8-88d2-2640c67dfc23 X-Archives-Hash: f308dbc586d517004baa055d097f7f43 On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:59:59 +0200, Alan McKinnon 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) >>=20 >> 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 >=20 > "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 throwin= g you to a text console and greeting you with an undefined symbol message. --=20 Jes=C3=BAs Guerrero