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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-9.10 don't cooperate with xorg-server-7.1.0
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:45:31
Message-Id: tkrat.67e2bccd3a12cef6@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-9.10 don't cooperate with xorg-server-7.1.0 by Alan McKinnon
1 On 28 Oct, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 28 October 2009 12:05:21 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> This was working just fine:
6 >>
7 >> kernel 2.6.31-r3 + xorg-server-1.6.5 + ati-drivers-9.10
8 >>
9 >> Now
10 >> kernel 2.6.31-r4 + xorg-server-1.7.1 + ati-drivers-9.10
11 >> fail with
12 >>
13 >> (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
14 >> dlopen: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol:
15 >> resVgaShared (EE) Failed to load
16 >> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
17 >>
18 >>
19 >> Is there any fix already?
20 >
21 >
22 > Apparently not. The conflict lies in the ati drivers and you will have to wait
23 > for ATI to support xorg-1.7 before upgrading.
24 >
25 > There's a bug on b.g.o. which I read last night that has more info. Search
26 > for xorg-server, it's near the end of the list (clearly marked)
27 >
28
29 Thanks for pointing this out to me.
30 There should be a warning, since, as many others found out, as well,
31 it's not that easier to step back to xorg-server-1.6.5
32
33 (I for myself stepped back to the radeonhd driver for my ATI card
34 which works with xorg-server-1.7.1)
35
36 Helmut.
37
38
39 --
40 Helmut Jarausch
41
42 Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
43 RWTH - Aachen University
44 D 52056 Aachen, Germany

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Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-9.10 don't cooperate with xorg-server-7.1.0 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>