Will Woods wrote:
On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 11:08 +0200, Niels Haase wrote:
> Hello,
>
> after update today X won't start any more. The update included some X
> relevant packages:
> xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.12-33.20090501gitf69b34a.fc11.x86_64
> xorg-x11-server-common-1.6.1-11.fc11.x86_64
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.1-11.fc11.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.29.2-126.fc11.x86_64
>
> The problem seems to be the missing nouveau_dri.so file.
>
> The last lines from Xorg.log:
>
> (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/nouveau_dri.so failed
> (/usr/lib64/dri/nouveau_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No
> such file or directory)
> (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
> (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so
> (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
>
No, that's a red herring - that message always appears, because we don't
ship a DRI library for nouveau yet. Here's the same messages in my
Xorg.0.log:
(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/nouveau_dri.so failed
(/usr/lib64/dri/nouveau_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
And yet here I am using evolution to type this mail.
Have you tried checking syslog, or booting with 'enforcing=0'?
-w
This was due to changes in exa api and is fixed in -34 version of the
nouvau driver
JBG