Re: X on Lemote Yeeloong

Martin Husemann <[email protected]> Sun, 24 Jan 2016 10:57:04 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.evbmips,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 01:39:37AM -0500, Michael wrote:
> That sounds like a bug in the mips64le dynamic linker ( for some reason
> this does *not* happen on sgimips64 ), which was fixed a while ago and
> apparently came back. On my gdium it helps to explicitly load a bunch
> of modules like this:
> 
> Section "Module"
>         Load "exa"
>         Load "xaa"
>         Load "vgahw"
> EndSection

A bug in the runtime linker, while not impossible, sounds a bit unlikely.
There probably is a real problem somewhere preventing loading/linking
and a bit of tracing with ldd and nm should show it.

Martin