Strange message when emerging ati-drivers-8.23.7

[sewerurchin]

Hi,
When I re-emerge the above, I see the following error:

...
*Removing x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.23.7 from moduledb.
!!!Error: Unrecognized option: xorg-x11
exiting.
>>> Original instance of package unmerged safely.

The rest of the emerge completes without any errors.

I would try do fix it, if I knew where it was getting the option in the first place.
Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

I found this because I am trying to move to modular X (xorg-x11-7.0-r1).
I have VIDEO_CARDS="ati fglrx vesa fbdev"
I have an ATI RV350 AR (Radeon 9600).

When I try to start X I get:

(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: __glXActiveScreens
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (loader failed, 7)
(EE) No drivers available.

libglx does not exist, but I don't know where to get it.

Any help that you can offer would be appreciated.

[mars-red]

Hi, would you mind posting your /etc/make.conf as well as the output you get from:

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emerge --pretend --verbose ati-drivers

I'm not positive I'll be able to help, but I'll certainly do my best.

[sewerurchin]

Thanks. Here is my /etc/make.conf:

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# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="-gtk -gnome dri qt kde dvd alsa cdr ssl aac asf ppds"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
VIDEO_CARDS="ati fglrx vesa fbdev"

And here is the output from emerge -pv ati-drivers:

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[ebuild   R   ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.23.7  USE="opengl" 0 kB 

[mars-red]

Hm, which versions of the following packages are you using?
opengl-update
eselect
eselect-opengl

[sewerurchin]

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x11-base/opengl-update-2.2.4
app-admin/eselect-1.0
app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.3

[mars-red]

Try opengl-update 3.0.0. It's ~ for all arches, but so is eselect-opengl and you have that installed so I'm guessing you are ~.

At some point opengl-update was altered to just be a front-end for eselect-opengl, and I think that was 3.0.0. I'm hoping that your problem is just because something is expecting eselect-opengl behavior (which isn't being provided with old opengl-update).

[sewerurchin]

I tried it, but it didn't help. I don't even know if the error during the emerge of ati-drivers is really a problem that is keeping me from starting X. I followed these instructions: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg to try to move to modular X.

I followed these instructions: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers to update my ATI drivers.

One of the things that it says there is:

Warning: Very important: opengl-update is deprecated, don't use it!

Here is what I see in my X log:

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(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module glx
(II) UnloadModule: "glx"
(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading sub module "drm"
(II) LoadModule: "drm"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux/libdrm.so
(II) Module drm: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: __glXActiveScreens
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (loader failed, 7)

I don't actually know that the glx module comes from the ati-drivers package.
Just grasping at straws. I think that I will be OK if I can figure out how to get the glx module back, but this is also a guess.

[dyatel15]

I would recommend do not use ati-drivers with x7.
It's close source, it's buggy and the vendor is not hurry to fix it.
Try to use mesa instead:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_A ... ce_Drivers