On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 23:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having problems getting XFree86 4.1 to build/run on my linuxppc > system with hardware acceleration for r128. I'm running linuxppc with a > 2.4.12 kernel, and although the build runs fine, I get a zillion > unresolved references from every DRI driver when I try to enable > hardware acceleration for r128.
What's a 'DRI driver'? The unresolved symbols are from the 2D driver modules. > The archives indicate that this problem is because the > -fno-merge-constants flag is required to build the modules, but I was > unable to configure the source tarball to include that flag. At the > advice of some nice people on irc.openprojects.net, I downloaded the > bleeding edge SRPM to attempt a build based on the instructions in the > spec file. However, the spec file claims that -fno-merge-constants is > required only by gcc 2.9.6 and above. I have a 2.9.5 flavor of gcc which > i just noticed does not support the -fno-merge-constants flag. Your problem is completely unrelated to that. > So I guess my real question is, how do I solve the unresolved references > problem if it is not a compilation flag issue? I have verified that all > the accelerated driver modules are present in the > /lib/modules/<version>/kernel/driver/char/drm directory, Those aren't driver modules but DRM kernel modules. They haven't even come into play yet. > but I still get the errors (the X log file is attached). > <Attachment missing> Is that log from an 'X -configure' run? That might just be broken, maybe due to one of the drivers. You could try removing all but the ati and r128 driver modules. It might be a good idea for you to read some documentation on http://dri.sf.net . PS: If your distribution doesn't provide XFree86 packages with DRI enabled, maybe you should switch to a better one... -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
