Undefined symbol "xf86DisableRandR"

[Chris]

On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 09:35:03 +0200 Niclas Zeising zeising at freebsd.org said

> On 2020-04-04 01:44, Chris wrote:
> > I'm struggling with a build of 13/current on a box.
> > Everything went pretty much as I might expect. But I'm stuck
> > on Xorg; big changes. I read updating, and understood that
> > building xorg-server with default options would DTRT. I
> > I added the sysctl(8) line for the keyboard, installed
> > my video driver (nvidia), and also followed advise in
> > pkg-message.
> > 
> > Starting Xorg resulted in:
> > ...
> > ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so: 
> > Undefined symbol
> > "xf86DisableRandR"
> > 
> > So I searched the interweb for solution(s), and found a
> > shell script in pr(1) 196678. Ran it, and was informed that the
> > xf86-input-evdev driver was not installed. I installed it. But
> > the results were the same.
> > 
> > Thoughts? Solutions?
> > 
> > Thank you for all your time, and consideration.
> > 
> 
> Hi!
> Are you using the nVidia driver version 304 by any chance?  That version 
> of the nVidia driver does not support xorg-server 1.20, and since it's a 
> binary driver there is not much we can do about it.  I suggest you talk 
> to nVidia about getting the driver to support xserver 1.20.
> Regards
> -- 
> Niclas Zeising
Right. Yes. Which I discovered with your help in a pr. I forgot to close
this thread.

Thanks, Niclas!

--Chris