Subject: Re: XFree864.4 not starting
To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@eunetnorge.no>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/10/2004 20:50:58
In message <86fzcg7hgv.fsf@athene.i.eunet.no>, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo writes:
>Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> writes:
>
>> I build and installed an up-to-date -current, including XFree86 4.4.
>> The X server isn't starting. It complains about lots of undefined
>> symbols -- but there's also a message in the log saying that that may
>> not be the cause of the problem.
>
>It is, though. I experienced exactly the same thing, and the problem
>is that some source files needed for accellerated ATI Mach 64 hardware
>are not compiled. This patch fixes it (and after you apply it, you
>can get the new module into place by 'make clean', 'make', and 'make
>install' in /usr/src/x11/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/atimisc):
>
That fix it; thanks. (I'm still seeing a message about ATITuner not
being found, but since I have no tuner on my video card I'm not
concerned.)
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb