[Savage40] X error

[Felix Kühling]

Am Donnerstag, den 20.01.2005, 21:23 +0100 schrieb Rácz János:
> Hello!
> 
> It was about one month ago, when I installed SuSE 9.2 and after, with help 
> "http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building" I managed to use "dri" well 
> (Savage 4) I was very satisfied with this driver.
> 
> Nowadays I installed a new (official SuSE) kernel (2.6.8 too, but it is 
> patched even more times).
> 
> The method was the same, it seemed OK for me, I hadn't got any error messages.
> The "agpgart" and "savage" modules are in, but server X does not work!
> After reboot everything is black. So Alt+Ctrl+F1, root logging:
> 
> # init 3
> # X
> 
> X does not start.
> 
> At the end of the (normal) message of X, there is an error row:
> 
> "X: symbol lookup error: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/savage_drv.so: 
> undefined symbol: xf86DoEDID_DDC1"
> 
> What is the problem indeed? 

Looks like this is related to the new module format. The server
sometimes picks up old and incompatible (.o) modules from your previous
X installation instead of new (.so) modules. See this message for a
solution:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=dri-users&m=110589571826213&w=2

Someone needs to update the build instructions.

> 
> nigra
> 

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