On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 06:16:00PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:48:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Bah. > Oh maybe youre lucky. Hesaid X4.0 is next on his list, for powrpc though. > > > Put xserver-fbdev on hold, and upgrade as much of XFree86 as will upgrade. > I reinstalled xserver-fbdev from 3.3.6 (should be functionally equivalent to > your proposal?), edit my config a little (had to add a Driver line to the > Framebuffer Device) and started xdm: > > XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) > Release Date: 18 December 2000 > [...] > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a > (II) Module XFree86 Font Renderer: vendor="XFree86 Font Renderer" > compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0 > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a > (II) Symbol memcpy from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a is > unresolved! > [...] > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > > Same with startx. If I XF68_FBDev though (after removing Driver again, > unknown keyword otherwise...) I do get X to run, but I don't get any window > manager or xterm to start. Pretty useless. This try was with a remote ssh > login, if I do it from the console, it simply crashes with signal 8. Weird. > > Anyhow, this does not look like a solution, since the modules are makeing > trouble right now?
Could you try not stripping the modules? I recall alpha having a similar problem. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
