> Hello Bob,
> looks like, the driver isn't rebuilt, take the centos 6.8 ISO and look
> how it goes.
> Sincerely
> AndyBe
Hello AndyBe,
I download the ISO's and started the reinstall. It went through all the normal setup up to outputting the message that it was starting Anaconda. Then the screen went blank and stayed that way. This is the same symptom as when it is trying to start. While the driver was not rebuild I suspect something that accesses the driver added a call to xf86LinearVidMem which is not found in the symbol list for the driver.
I am not sure where to go from here.
I have a USB SVGA video adapter sitting in a drawer. As much as I don't want to, I am thinking of plugging that in. That so much a long shot. It is designed as a second monitor. I tried plugging a PCI video card (old) into the expansion slot, but the system ignored it. Either the BIOS is not interested in other video cards or the slot is PCI-X only.
I would like to use this machine as my normal desktop as it has 2 processors each with 2 cores at 3.6GHz. It has 4 Gig memory with 4 empty slots and I have a spare to use for parts.
Bob Styma
> Am Mittwoch, den 08.02.2017, 17:40 +0000 schrieb Styma, Robert (Nokia -
US):
> > I am loading a server from the CentOS 6.7 ISO and then upgrading. After loading at release 6.7, the machine behaves normally. After running yum update, the X server will not start. Attempts to start it manually result in one of the following messages depending upon which OS is loaded. I initially loaded it as 64 bit and when that did not work I tried the 32 bit version of the OS. The graphics card is part of the motherboard so swapping it out is not an option. This is a server and there is no AGP slot.
> >
> > X: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/mach64_drv.so: undefined symbol: xf86LinearVidMem
> > X: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/mach64_drv.so: undefined symbol: xf86LinearVidMem
> >
> > I yum grouperased the X Window System and Desktop and then groupinstalled it with no luck. I then changed my repos to point to the original ISO, but there were too many dependencies broken to get the system to groupinstall the X Window System and desktop. I tried forcing in just the driver, but it fails with a message about the driver being at a different release than the X server.
> >
> > I am planning to reload the OS and use the Yum Exclude to keep the Xorg pieces. Unfortunately, that will probably break a lot of dependencies.
> >
> > I downloaded the source for the driver from Xorg, but need to find a lot more stuff to get it to compile, and even then, it is likely not to work.
> >
> > Does anyone have any more things to try?
> > Yes I know the mach64 is an old video card, but that is what is there.
> >
> > Since CentOS just follows the upstream source, I am not sure where to file a bug. Not that that is likely to help. I am batting 0 for 5 over the last decade and a half getting anything fixed.
> >
> > Bob Styma
> >
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