XFree86 port broke for Matrox G550

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Thursday 16 of June 2005 13:30, Steve Friedrich wrote:
> 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 ?

x11-servers/mga_hal is most probably just a convenient way to install those 
files from Matrox, have a look at it. If those files were not binary and 
needed compilation, you'll have to recompile them after XFree upgrade. You 
could still need above patches and recompile of XFree-Server though.


Dejan