[Nouveau] Trouble with building xf86-video-nouveau

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:17:05 -0700
walt <w41ter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/04/2010 10:38 PM, noname_oz at pochta.ru wrote:
> > I have problem with building nouveau driver. I already have
> > installed latest versions of mesa and libdrm. In process of
> > building i have this error:
> >
> > drmmode_display.c: In function drmmode_xf86crtc_resize:
> > drmmode_display.c:1076: error: struct _ScrnInfoRec has no
> > member named pixmapPrivate
> 
> Two wild guesses.  Do you have the proprietary nvidia-drivers
> package installed? If so, run 'eselect opengl list' to find out
> which version you are using.  Try switching to the xorg-x11
> version.
> 
> The *-9999 package just pulls from the git repository and build
> whatever code happens to be there at the time.  Try re-installing
> the package again to get any commits you may have missed the
> first time.

No, this is a known breakage due to API changes in the X.org
server. Nouveau DDX does not yet have a fix.

There is already a bug report:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30482

In the mean time, you just need to revert to an older
(preferrably released) X server.

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Pekka Paalanen
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