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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-desktop] xfree failing on new installation
From:       Tom Wesley <tom.wesley () ntlworld ! com>
Date:       2004-06-12 9:39:19
Message-ID: 1087033159.15838.1.camel () localhost
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On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 22:05 -0600, Jason Carlson wrote:
> Brand new to Gentoo.
> 
> Installed from liveCD smp kernel (2.6.5-gentoo-r1) with framebuffering
> support.
> 
> Once someone helped remind me to set a bootable flag in fdisk it has been
> running good.
> 
> All I have installed after it was running was vim & xfree
> 
> Trying to start xfree fails with a duplicate symbol error.  Any thoughts?
> 
> Here is the xfree86.0.log
> 
> 
> 
> XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1
> Release Date: 15 August 2003
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
> Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 [ELF]
> Build Date: 12 June 2004
> 	Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
> 	to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Module Loader present
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>          (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>          (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sat Jun 12 11:51:31 2004
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
> (==) ServerLayout "Simple Layout"
> (**) |-->Screen "Screen 1" (0)
> (**) |   |-->Monitor "ViewSonic PF790"
> (**) |   |-->Device "NVidia GeForce2"
> (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1"
> (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1"
> (**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
> (**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
> (**) Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
> (**) XKB: model: "microsoft"
> (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> (**) XKB: layout: "us"
> (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
> (**) FontPath set to
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/l
> ib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/
> X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X
> 11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> (**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
> Using vt 7
> (--) using VT number 7
> 
> (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
> (II) Module ABI versions:
> 	XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2
> 	XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6
> 	XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4
> 	XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2
> 	XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4
> (II) Loader running on linux
> (II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
> Duplicate symbol __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a:bitmapmod.o
> Also defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Module load failure
> 

Not really an answer, but because of XFree86's new license a lot of
people using Gentoo are moving over to use xorg-x11 instead.

A quick search turned up [1], does it apply to you?

  1: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43177
-- 
Tom Wesley <tom.wesley@ntlworld.com>

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