XFree86 port broke for Matrox G550

Steven Friedrich FreeBSD at InsightBB.com
Thu Jun 16 11:40:45 GMT 2005


On Thursday 16 June 2005 06:35 am, 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

Those two files did the trick.  Thanks.

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