Re: How to uninstall dri?

On 12/13/06, Fabio Stumbo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
> I have a couple of questions which are not answered on the site.
>
> First, let me explain that I have an ati rage128 card and ubuntu 6.06.
> I was not satisfied of the acceleration which came by default: it was
> slower and gave me problems with respect to the oldeer, but still working
> distribution on my pc (a mandriva 2005LE).
> So I updated dri, as explained in the site
> http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/Mesa/Dri?highlight=%28mesa/dri%29
>
> Basically, I downloaded
>
> common-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2
> rage128-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2

Those snapshots are ancient.

>
> I uncompressed them, and ran the install.sh
>
> The first was ok. For the second, I get an error. The log says
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> make DRM_MODULES=r128.o modules
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/home/stumbo/download/rage128-20060403-linux.i386/drm/linux-core'
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-k7/build  SUBDIRS=`pwd` DRMSRCDIR=`pwd`
> modules
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-k7'
>    Building modules, stage 2.
>    MODPOST
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-k7'
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/stumbo/download/rage128-20060403-linux.i386/drm/linux-core'
> WARNING: Error inserting drm
> (/lib/modules/2.6.15-26-k7/kernel/drivers/char/drm/drm.ko): Unknown symbol
> in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> FATAL: Error inserting r128
> (/lib/modules/2.6.15-26-k7/kernel/drivers/char/drm/r128.ko): Unknown
> symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
> Now I result in no kind of acceleration: much worse than before. Drm
> doesn't load:
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> # dmesg | grep drm
> [17180335.284000] drm: disagrees about version of symbol boot_cpu_data
> [17180335.284000] drm: Unknown symbol boot_cpu_data
> [17180335.284000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_open
> [17180335.284000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_fasync
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_poll
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_core_get_reg_ofs
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_irq_uninstall
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_get_dev
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_ioctl
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_exit
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_debug
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_core_get_map_ofs
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_init
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_vbl_send_signals
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_cleanup_pci
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_ati_pcigart_init
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_mmap
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_order
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_ati_pcigart_cleanup
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_core_reclaim_buffers
> [17180335.292000] r128: Unknown symbol drm_release
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
> First question: (how) can I solve this?

IIRC, the snapshot scripts backed up your current stuff as long as you
only run them once.  Running them again will just backup the new files
over your old ones.

>
> Second (and most important) question: assume I want to go back to my
> previous configuration.
> How do I do this?
> There is no uninstall script, nor a "uninstall" option in the install.sh
> script. I can't realize what has been done during install...
> And, after having uninstalled it (if I will be able...) how do I recover
> the previous files? Did the install overwrite some file from some package
> that needs then to be reinstalled? And which?
>

you should just be able to re-install your distros packages (names
depend on distros: xorg-r128-driver, mesa-dri, kernel).

Alex

> Thank you a lot for your help.
>
> Fabio Stumbo
>

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