Re: X on Lemote Yeeloong

Michael <[email protected]> Sun, 24 Jan 2016 11:24:23 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips.devel,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.evbmips
Organization The NetBSD Foundation
Message-ID <20160124112423.3f0c36be@blackbush>
Hello,

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

> 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.

It complains about (semi)random symbols that are supposed to be lazy
resolved, not at load time.

IIRC manu@ fixed it last time around.

have fun
Michael