X doesn't start in minilinux

[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Jay Cotton <Jay.Cotton at sun.com> wrote:
> On 03/04/10 11:28, GreenFlash wrote:
>>
>> thx, that somebody helps me. Here's the device-Section from my xorg.conf:
>>
>> Section "Device"
>>         Identifier      "VIA"
>>         Driver          "vesa"
>>         BusID           "PCI:0:2:0"
>> EndSection
>>
>> And the corresponding line from lspci:
>>
>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH
>> VirtualBox Graphics Adapter
>>
>> I also just realised, that there are some version differences in the
>> xserver and the vesa module. The module is compiled for version 1.6.3,
>> but the server has version 1.6.4.
>> Might this cause the problem?
>>
>
> YES.   ABI is important to Xorg now.

Xorg does usually maintain ABI through a minor release series. So, a
1.6.x driver should work with a 1.6.y server without recompiling.

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Dan