On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 05:46:24AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> 
> >> > No. Will be some work to extract the CVS diff for me. So you can't
> >> > reproduce this problem with 4.3.0? I'll have a try with 4.3.0 now
> >> > before looking deeper into this issue.
> >> 
> >> I've just tried xf86cfg under 4.3 and didn't have any difficulties.  One 
> >> thing I did have to do was clean out ancient drivers from the modules 
> >> directory -- I had several seg faults until I made sure I didn't have 
> >> anything older than 4.3 installed.
> >
> >Strange. It only happens if "libfreetype.so" render module exists. I
> >compile this against system libfreetype to get rid of some bugs in
> >freetype2 which comes with XFree86 (some fonts can't be displayed any
> >more which worked with freetype1 based freetype module).  After
> >loading this module every module gets a
> >
> >  ERROR SIGSEGV caught!
> >
> >after loading.
> >
> >[...]
> >Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so
> >Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> >        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 2.0.2
> >Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so
> >Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a
> >Module type1: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> >        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.2
> >  ERROR SIGSEGV caught!
> >Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
> >Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> >        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
> >  ERROR SIGSEGV caught!
> >
> >Maybe xf86cfg can't handle these modules. XFree86 loader can.
> 
> 
> Hmm.  Perhaps this is related to the setjmp() et al. changes 
> lately?  Just a thought...

No, I backed these out for testing. Must be related to xf86cfg. Maybe
xf86cfg can't handle ".so" modules.

Best regards,
Stefan

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