Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:38:44 +0200 From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> To: "Steve Friedrich" <freeBSD@InsightBB.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XFree86 port broke for Matrox G550 Message-ID: <200506161338.44571.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> In-Reply-To: <20050616113043.DB83217B88E@patsy.ijs.si> References: <20050616113043.DB83217B88E@patsy.ijs.si>
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On Thursday 16 of June 2005 13:30, Steve Friedrich wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:35:42 +0200, Dejan Lesjak wrote: > >Steve Friedrich wrote: > >> I just cvsupped and used portupgrade for XFree86. I portupgraded imake > >> first, then went thru each XFree86 component. > >> > >> I've been using a XFConfig file, but when I got this error, I tried > >> startx -autoconfig > >> > >> When I startx, I get: > >> > >> (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) > >> Required symbol MGASetDisplayStart from module > >> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mg a_drv.o is unresolved! > >> Required symbol MGASetDisplayStart from module > >> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mg a_drv.o is unresolved! > >> Fatal server error: > >> Some required symbols were unresolved > > > >Try this: grab these two files: > > > >http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xfree/mga/patch-HALlib_bindings.c > >http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xfree/mga/patch-mga_driver.c > > > >Put them both in files directory of XFree86-4-Server port > >(/usr/ports/x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server/files) and recompile and > > reinstall XFree86-4-Server port. Your XF86Config file from before should > > work fine. Are you perhaps using x11-servers/mga_hal? > > > > > >Dejan > > not exactly. The instructions that I had previously had me using a couple > files from Matrox, but to my knowledge, there wasn't a port for a server. > Should I be using x11-servers/mga_hal ? x11-servers/mga_hal is most probably just a convenient way to install those files from Matrox, have a look at it. If those files were not binary and needed compilation, you'll have to recompile them after XFree upgrade. You could still need above patches and recompile of XFree-Server though. Dejan
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