[Xorg] nvidia driver no longer works with current CVS?

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 03:23:39PM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> I just updated to current CVS and recognized that the (binary-only)
> nvidia driver for Linux no longer works with that version. Error
> messages are:
> 
> Symbol vgaHWGetIndex from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> Symbol vgaHWSave from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> Symbol vgaHWRestore from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> Symbol vgaHWUnmapMem from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> Symbol fbCloseScreen from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> Symbol fbWinPrivateIndex from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> Symbol fbCreateWindow from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> Symbol fbCreateGC from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> Symbol fbGCPrivateIndex from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> Symbol fbValidateGC from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> Symbol fbPictureInit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> 
>    *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
>    *** be the reason for the server aborting.
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
> 
> I verified that the nvidia driver still works with CVS of 04-06-27,
> but is at least broken with CVS of 04-07-07 and later. Simply using
> the Xorg binary of 04-06-27 fixes the problem.
> 
> Anyone who is able to reproduce this? 

Looks like it can be reproduced.

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From: dave ! <ag051379 at hotmail.com>
To: sndirsch at suse.de
Subject: Re: [Xorg] nvidia driver no longer works with current CVS?
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:08:22 +1000

Hi

I built xorg CVS this past weekend and got the same error's trying to
use nvidia's driver. I'm not signed up for the mailing-list but feel
free to forward this email there.
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> Any ideas which radical changes might be responsible for this?

Stefan

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