Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 07:56:50 +0100 From: Jamie Griffin <griffin8j@gmail.com> 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: <53EF00B2.3050908@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1884719.AVqlqasO54@curlew.lan> References: <2185120.2ReaZYee1X@curlew.lan> <53EC8763.7060708@gmail.com> <1884719.AVqlqasO54@curlew.lan>
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On 15/08/2014 16:30, 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 indication that the drivers were out of date.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. > Yeah I had exactly the same thing and was confused by that as well. I've stopped using pkg altogether for a while as its got issues. I had to remove all my packages and start over because it screwed everything up and it still won't install the KDE distribution; so i'm using my old friend fvwm2 for now.
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