Bug 133138 – nvidia-glx broken USE="dlloader" check w/ modular X

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mark Kegel 2006-05-12 11:10:26 UTC]

The newest ebuild of nvidia-glx.1.0.8756 has a typo that causes Xorg to crash with a message like this:

   module version mismatch between X module and glx module

This is due to a typo that creates the file:

   /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o

The file should actually be named with a .so. Without overwriting the old nvidia driver (8178), Xorg gets confused and crashes. The problem can be easily fixed by renaming the .o file to .so.

I am running Xorg 7.0 on an x86 machine.

Mark Kegel

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-05-12 11:27:31 UTC]

Not a typo, the use flag check is broken. Modular X has dlloader always enabled.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-05-23 12:08:55 UTC]

It would be kinda nice to *not* keep porting this bug to newer driver versions, like 1.0.8762... :/

if use dlloader || has_version x11-base/xorg-server ; then
        [[ -f ${drvdir}/nvidia_drv.so ]] && \
                doexe ${drvdir}/nvidia_drv.so
else
        [[ -f ${drvdir}/nvidia_drv.o ]] && \
                doexe ${drvdir}/nvidia_drv.o
fi

[Comment 3 Kris Kersey (RETIRED) 2006-05-23 14:53:20 UTC]

Is that a suggested fix?  Is that the proper way to handle this?  It hasn't been fixed yet because I wasn't sure.  Thanks.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-05-23 15:32:30 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Is that a suggested fix?  Is that the proper way to handle this?  It hasn't
> been fixed yet because I wasn't sure.  Thanks.

Shrug... Yeah, it renders USE=dlloader kinda bogus when this ebuild is used w/ modular X. But since you can't have conditional IUSE in ebuilds, I can't see any other fix for this. (Unless you want to do the IUSE magic in some eclass; x-modular isn't a good one for this, so probably x11.eclass is the only one left. Not worth the hassle, IMO.)

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-05-23 15:53:59 UTC]

Looking at other ebuilds w/ USE=dlloader, almost the same is used for synaptics and linuxwacom.

x11-drivers/synaptics:

if use dlloader || has_version ">=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.15" || has_version ">=x11-base/xorg-server-0.99"

x11-misc/linuxwacom:

if use dlloader || has_version ">=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.15" || has_version ">=x11-base/xorg-server-0.1" ; then

So, probably the most complete one would be:

if use dlloader || has_version ">=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.15" || has_version x11-base/xorg-server ; then
        [[ -f ${drvdir}/nvidia_drv.so ]] && \
                doexe ${drvdir}/nvidia_drv.so
...

[Comment 6 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2006-05-23 16:29:08 UTC]

6.8.99.15 is bad because we have 6.9 in the tree. Also xorg-x11 doesn't need to be installed when using modular X. Please test for xorg-server instead.

[Comment 7 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-05-23 16:35:21 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> 6.8.99.15 is bad because we have 6.9 in the tree. Also xorg-x11 doesn't need to
> be installed when using modular X. Please test for xorg-server instead.

You might want to fix the other ebuilds then... :) Otherwise yeah, we can just stick to the original solution in Comment #2.

[Comment 8 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-07-03 23:54:48 UTC]

*** Bug 139110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 9 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-07-03 23:55:07 UTC]

Ping, this needs to be fixed.

[Comment 10 Kris Kersey (RETIRED) 2006-07-06 14:18:50 UTC]

Resolved in new ebuilds: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8762 and x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers-1.0.7182

Give them a try. :-)