Re: was [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 now old nvidia drivers

2009-05-17 Thread Dale 
Adam Carter wrote:
 For you guys with older hardware/drivers, have you tried turning on 
 CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS and recompiling the kernel to see if its helps? (Kernel 
 hacking - Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols).

 I use it to support vmware server 1.x and ati flgrx drivers (with 2.6.26 or 
 later kernels). IIRC my home machine is an IGP 440 MX running 2.6.28 (not 
 sure of driver version off the top of my head, maybe masked to ?97?) but its 
 working fine.


   

That is a good find.  I can't say that it is the problem but it was not
enabled on my kernel but it is now.  I'll try to test this later on as
well.  This sounds like what the error was reporting it couldn't find. 
This could work.

Thanks. 

Dale

:-)  :-)

RE: was [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 now old nvidia drivers

2009-05-17 Thread Adam Carter 

  For you guys with older hardware/drivers, have you tried
 turning on CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS and recompiling the kernel
 to see if its helps? (Kernel hacking - Enable
 unused/obsolete exported symbols).
snip
 That is a good find.  I can't say that it is the problem but
 it was not
 enabled on my kernel but it is now.  I'll try to test this later on as
 well.  This sounds like what the error was reporting it
 couldn't find. This could work.

If it does work it would be worth a bug report to get the nvidia ebuild(s) 
updated similar to the ati ones;

# grep -i symbol ati-drivers-8.593.ebuild
if kernel_is ge 2 6 26  ! linux_chkconfig_present UNUSED_SYMBOLS; then
ewarn You have to Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols in 
Kernel hacking section of kernel config for fglrx to load