Unresolved symbol in libdri.a (X.org)

[Mario Hoerich]

# Louis LeBlanc:
> First my config:
> OS: 5.4-RELEASE-p8
> X.org version: xorg-6.8.2 (built from ports)
> video driver: nvidia-driver-1.0.7676_1 (built from ports)
> 
> 
> My xorg.conf (only including what I suspect is relevant:
> 
> Section "Module"
>         Load "dbe"
>         Load "extmod"
>         Load "dri"
          ^^^^^^^^^^
Remove this from you xorg.conf (see below why).


> Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!

This is the result of the 'Load "dri"'-line above.

DRI is hardware accelleration for several *non-nVidia*-GPUs.
If you're using the nVidia-driver, DRI is useless.

In this particular case, libdri.a needs to resolve the
external symbol __glXgetActiveScreen, which simply isn't 
provided by nVidia's /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so. [1]

HTH,
Mario

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[1]:  try:  objdump -T libGL.so | grep glX