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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-9.10 don't cooperate with xorg-server-7.1.0
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:45:27 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tkrat.67e2bccd3a12cef6@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910281212.32885.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>

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

(I for myself stepped back to the radeonhd driver for my ATI card
which works with xorg-server-1.7.1)

Helmut.


-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany



  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-28 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-28 10:05 [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-9.10 don't cooperate with xorg-server-7.1.0 Helmut Jarausch
2009-10-28 10:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-28 10:45   ` Helmut Jarausch [this message]
2009-10-28 10:59     ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-28 11:17       ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-28 11:29       ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-10-28 13:36         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-10-28 10:46   ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-10-28 10:51     ` Helmut Jarausch
2009-10-28 13:38       ` Volker Armin Hemmann

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