XFree86 port broke for Matrox G550

Steve Friedrich freeBSD at InsightBB.com
Thu Jun 16 11:30:43 GMT 2005


On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:35:42 +0200, Dejan Lesjak wrote:

>Steve Friedrich wrote:

>> I just cvsupped and used portupgrade for XFree86.  I portupgraded imake
>> first, then went thru each XFree86 component.
>> 
>> I've been using a XFConfig file, but when I got this error, I tried startx
>> -autoconfig
>> 
>> When I startx, I get:
>> 
>> (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
>> Required symbol MGASetDisplayStart from module
>> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mg a_drv.o is unresolved!
>> Required symbol MGASetDisplayStart from module
>> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mg a_drv.o is unresolved!
>> Fatal server error:
>> Some required symbols were unresolved

>Try this: grab these two files:

>http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xfree/mga/patch-HALlib_bindings.c
>http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xfree/mga/patch-mga_driver.c

>Put them both in files directory of XFree86-4-Server port 
>(/usr/ports/x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server/files) and recompile and reinstall 
>XFree86-4-Server port. Your XF86Config file from before should work fine.
>Are you perhaps using x11-servers/mga_hal?


>Dejan

not exactly.  The instructions that I had previously had me using a couple files from Matrox, but to my knowledge, there wasn't a port for a server.
Should I be using x11-servers/mga_hal ?







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