Re: CVS GLX oddity

David Dawes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:13:25AM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>   Is that the final fix or is there something else I should test?
>That one works for me.

That is the final fix.  I'll commit it soon.

David

>
>
>		Mark.
>
>On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>
>>
>>    Yes, that works.
>>
>> 		Mark.
>>
>> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, David Dawes wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:52:00PM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>> > >   initdata is still NULL even after your call to LoaderSymbol() in
>> > >that patch.
>> >
>> > The module name needs to be prepended.  Something like:
>> >
>> >   if (!initdata) {
>> >     char *md;
>> >
>> >     xasprintf(&md, "%s" MODULE_DATA_NAME, name);
>> >     if (md) {
>> >       initdata = LoaderSymbol(md);
>> >       xfree(md);
>> >     }
>> >   }
>> >
>> >
>> > David
>> >
>> > >
>> > >		Mark.
>> > >
>> > >On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, David Dawes wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 06:57:17PM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>> > >> >  I can't get CVS to load NVIDIA's GLX module.  It complains:
>> > >> >
>> > >> >(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
>> > >> >(EE) LoadModule: Module glx does not have a glxModuleData data object.
>> > >> >(II) UnloadModule: "glx"
>> > >> >
>> > >> >Did something change with regards to this?  It was working before
>> > >> >I updated.
>> > >>
>> > >> dlopen modules have always had different semantics than XFree86 modules.
>> > >> These differences will only get greater as additional features are added
>> > >> to the XFree86 loader and as the newly added features are used more
>> > >> widely.
>> > >>
>> > >> The following (untested) patch may solve this particular problem.  Let me know
>> > >> how it goes.
>> > >>
>> > >> David
>> > >> --
>> > >> David Dawes                                     X-Oz Technologies
>> > >> www.XFree86.org/~dawes                          www.x-oz.com
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