New xorg fails with "module ABI major version (6) doesn't match the server's version (12)"

[Mike Clarke]

On Thursday 14 August 2014 10:54:43 Jamie Griffin wrote:

> This is simple to fix - run 'portmaster xf86-' and it will rebuild
> the  drivers beginning with xf86- and will then match the servers
> version.
> 
> For some reason when building the ports for new xorg the drivers
> built  and installed are for an older version of xorg server as
> you've seen when checking pkg info.

Thanks, that fixed it.

The odd thing is that neither pkg version nor portmaster gave any 
indication that the drivers were out of date. All the packages for 
xorg were installed in a single run of pkg install so I wouldd have 
expected the new repository to have supplied all the relevant drivers.

Portmaster just re-installed the drivers rather than upgrading them.

##################################
curlew:/root# portmaster xf86-input-mouse xf86-video-vesa xf86-video-
nv xf86-input-keyboard

===>>> Working on:
	xf86-input-mouse-1.9.0_3
	xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3_3
	xf86-video-nv-2.1.20_4
	xf86-input-keyboard-1.8.0_2

[snip]

===>>> The following actions were performed:
	Installation of devel/pkgconf (pkgconf-0.9.6_1)
	Installation of devel/xorg-macros (xorg-macros-1.19.0)
	Installation of x11/glproto (glproto-1.4.17)
	Installation of x11/resourceproto (resourceproto-1.2.0)
	Installation of x11/xf86driproto (xf86driproto-2.1.1)
	Re-installation of xf86-input-mouse-1.9.0_3
	Re-installation of xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3_3
	Re-installation of xf86-video-nv-2.1.20_4
	Re-installation of xf86-input-keyboard-1.8.0_2
##################################

But I still don't understand why pkg install failed to get the drivers 
from the FreeBSD_new_xorg repository which does appear to have them.

##################################
curlew:/root# pkg rquery -r FreeBSD_new_xorg "%n %v" xf86-input-mouse\
? xf86-video-vesa xf86-video-nv xf86-input-keyboard
xf86-input-mouse 1.9.0_3
xf86-video-vesa 2.3.3_3
xf86-video-nv 2.1.20_4
xf86-input-keyboard 1.8.0_2

##################################

In fact if I use "pkg install -r FreeBSD_new_xorg xf86-video-vesa" I 
do get it from FreeBSD_new_xorg and X works fine with it. But without 
the -r option it defaults to giving me the version from the FreeBSD 
repository.

And Sod's law appears to apply here - pkg install did get the ati and 
intel video drivers from FreeBSD_new_xorg. Wrong versions of these 
Would not have affected me.

-- 
Mike Clarke