[Openchrome-devel] [Bug 106298] Everex NC 1502NC P4M900

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106298

Kevin Brace <kevinbrace at gmx.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Kevin Brace <kevinbrace at gmx.com> ---
Hi Scott,

I do not think this is an OpenChrome DDX upstream bug.
This is essentially an Arch Linux packaging / configuration bug.
I can say this because of this portion that caught my eyes from Xorg.0.log.

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[  4717.773] (II) LoadModule: "openchrome"
[  4717.784] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so
[  4717.785] (EE) Failed to load
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so:
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so: undefined symbol:
vgaHWFreeHWRec
[  4717.786] (II) UnloadModule: "openchrome"
[  4717.786] (II) Unloading openchrome
[  4717.786] (EE) Failed to load module "openchrome" (loader failed, 7)
. . .
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This situation is eerily similar to the situation mentioned in this thread.

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/openchrome-users/2017-January/007298.html


This seems to be the solution.

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/openchrome-users/2017-January/007306.html 


I hope that helps.

Kevin Brace
Brace Computer Laboratory blog
https://bracecomputerlab.com

(In reply to Scott from comment #0)
> Kevin,
> 
> First off, Thanks for your work on this.
> 
> On an Everex Via C7-D stepnote w/ P4M900 graphics, the openchrome drivers
> fails to load.
> 
> Pertinent lspci
> "01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>         Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc CN896/VN896/P4M900
> [Chrome 9 HC]
>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 16, IRQ 9
>         Memory at a0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512M]
>         Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>         [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>         Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
>         Capabilities: [70] AGP version 2.0
> "
>   
> The following attachments concern a driver built with
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-openchrome-git/
> that was updated to:
> "# Maintainer:  Peter Mattern <pmattern at arcor dot de>
> # Contributor: Koscheev "Ashen" Mikhail <fresh19991 at yandex dot ru>
> # Contributor: Pascal "hardfalcon" Ernster <aur at hardfalcon dot net>
> # Contributor: Marcel Dykstra <marcel dot dykstra at gmail dot com>
> 
> _pkgname=xf86-video-openchrome
> pkgname=$_pkgname-git
> pkgver=xf86.video.0.6.0.374.g3c882cf
> "
> 
> In Xorg.0.log the openchome module is unloaded after
> " [  4717.773] (II) LoadModule: "openchrome"
> [  4717.784] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so
> [  4717.785] (EE) Failed to load
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so:
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so: undefined symbol:
> vgaHWFreeHWRec
> [  4717.786] (II) UnloadModule: "openchrome"
> [  4717.786] (II) Unloading openchrome
> "
> 
> I also tried Debian 9.4 following the recent blog advice.

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