Building latest X.org cvs sources

Bogdan Diaconescu b_diaconescu at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 23 10:17:52 PST 2005


> > Hi Xorg users, I'm trying to use X built from
> latest
> > cvs sources but I get the following error:
> > 
> > II) Loading
> > /opt/Xorg-6.8.x/lib/modules/drivers/atimisc_drv.so
> > dlopen:
> >
> /opt/Xorg-6.8.x/lib/modules/drivers/atimisc_drv.so:
> > undefined symbol: ATIMemoryTypeNames_88800CX
> > (EE) Failed to load
> > /opt/Xorg-6.8.x/lib/modules/drivers/atimisc_drv.so
> > 
> > Now the error is understandable since the missing
> > symbol is in another module: ati_drv.so.
> > 
> > My question is: how this dependencies are resolved
> at
> > loading time? What should I do to get ati_drv
> laoded
> > together with atimisc_drv?
> 
> This sounds like trouble with elfloader/dllloader
> (xorg switched the 
> loader recently). If you have old modules around (.o
> and .a) in the 
> drivers directory, you need to clean them out.
> The loader should then handle these dependencies
> automatically, though I 
> don't know what magic is involved in that :-).

Actually my instalation is clean so I do not have
mixed .o ad .so files.

Regards,
Bogdan

> 
> Roland
> 



	
		
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