Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 16:21:06 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New xorg fails with "module ABI major version (6) doesn't match the server's version (12)" Message-ID: <5414B542.5060005@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <5414A8F6.7040409@hiwaay.net> References: <2185120.2ReaZYee1X@curlew.lan> <53EC8763.7060708@gmail.com> <1884719.AVqlqasO54@curlew.lan> <5414A8F6.7040409@hiwaay.net>
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Answer: yes, but w/ no 'wild cards' .... pkg feature request :-) ?
On 09/13/14 15:28, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>
> I just had a recurrence of this exact problem after a 'pkg upgrade -y'
> (which worked AOK since I didn't do any messing w/ ports before :-/ ).
> I used the portmaster command & also had the same net result (drivers
> reinstalled by pkg_static, rather than pkg, although they were
> compiled up locally) .... My question is: Is there a way to get pkg to
> do this, rather than ports/portmaster ? I prefer all 1 package manager
> as much as possible, & for me that is pkg, except where necessary to
> fall back on ports (flash plugin, for example). TIA ....
>
>
> On 08/15/14 10:30, Mike Clarke wrote:
>> On Thursday 14 August 2014 10:54:43 Jamie Griffin wrote:
>>
>>> This is simple to fix - run 'portmaster xf86-' and it will rebuild
>>> the drivers beginning with xf86- and will then match the servers
>>> version.
>>>
>>> For some reason when building the ports for new xorg the drivers
>>> built and installed are for an older version of xorg server as
>>> you've seen when checking pkg info.
>> Thanks, that fixed it.
>>
>> The odd thing is that neither pkg version nor portmaster gave any
>> indication that the drivers were out of date. All the packages for
>> xorg were installed in a single run of pkg install so I wouldd have
>> expected the new repository to have supplied all the relevant drivers.
>>
>> Portmaster just re-installed the drivers rather than upgrading them.
>>
>> ##################################
>> curlew:/root# portmaster xf86-input-mouse xf86-video-vesa xf86-video-
>> nv xf86-input-keyboard
>>
>> ===>>> Working on:
>> xf86-input-mouse-1.9.0_3
>> xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3_3
>> xf86-video-nv-2.1.20_4
>> xf86-input-keyboard-1.8.0_2
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> ===>>> The following actions were performed:
>> Installation of devel/pkgconf (pkgconf-0.9.6_1)
>> Installation of devel/xorg-macros (xorg-macros-1.19.0)
>> Installation of x11/glproto (glproto-1.4.17)
>> Installation of x11/resourceproto (resourceproto-1.2.0)
>> Installation of x11/xf86driproto (xf86driproto-2.1.1)
>> Re-installation of xf86-input-mouse-1.9.0_3
>> Re-installation of xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3_3
>> Re-installation of xf86-video-nv-2.1.20_4
>> Re-installation of xf86-input-keyboard-1.8.0_2
>> ##################################
>>
>> But I still don't understand why pkg install failed to get the drivers
>> from the FreeBSD_new_xorg repository which does appear to have them.
>>
>> ##################################
>> curlew:/root# pkg rquery -r FreeBSD_new_xorg "%n %v" xf86-input-mouse\
>> ? xf86-video-vesa xf86-video-nv xf86-input-keyboard
>> xf86-input-mouse 1.9.0_3
>> xf86-video-vesa 2.3.3_3
>> xf86-video-nv 2.1.20_4
>> xf86-input-keyboard 1.8.0_2
>>
>> ##################################
>>
>> In fact if I use "pkg install -r FreeBSD_new_xorg xf86-video-vesa" I
>> do get it from FreeBSD_new_xorg and X works fine with it. But without
>> the -r option it defaults to giving me the version from the FreeBSD
>> repository.
>>
>> And Sod's law appears to apply here - pkg install did get the ati and
>> intel video drivers from FreeBSD_new_xorg. Wrong versions of these
>> Would not have affected me.
>>
>
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William A. Mahaffey III
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