sparc64/94886: Cant install xorg/sparc64/Creator3D

[Dejan Lesjak]

The following reply was made to PR sparc64/94886; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak at ijs.si>
To: Marius Strobl <marius at alchemy.franken.de>
Cc: Andrew Grillet <andrew at grillet.co.uk>,
 freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: sparc64/94886: Cant install xorg/sparc64/Creator3D
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:15:41 +0200

 On Wednesday 29 March 2006 13:01, Marius Strobl wrote:
 > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:53:50PM +0000, Andrew Grillet wrote:
 > > >Environment:
 > >
 > > FreeBSD u60.grillet.home 5.5-PRERELEASE #1 Mon Mar 20 22:18:31 GMT 2006
 > > andrew at u60.grillet.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/U60 sparc64
 > >
 > > >Description:
 > >
 > > Cannot do
 > > startx -configure
 > > (or use my own config file)
 > > log shows
 > > dlopen: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sunffb_drv.so Undefined symbol
 > > "cfbPutImage" Failed to load, etc.
 >
 > It should work if you put 'Load "cfb"' and 'Load "cfb32"' into the
 > 'Module' section of your xorg.conf. Note that if you plan to use
 > creator(4) you really should use FreeBSD 6.0 or later as there a
 > couple of bugs like the screen corruption when switching to a
 > VTY from X or when shutting down the X server are fixed.
 > Dejan, can you tell whether sunffb_drv.so is missing dependencies
 > on libcfb.so and libcfb32.so or these are meant to be explicitly
 > loaded with Xorg server versions that use shared objects for
 > drivers?
 
 As far as I can tell cfb was rather completely removed from X.org. I'll see if 
 it is feasible to make a patch to remove the references instead.