Hello everybuddy

I've tried to follow instructions

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xmlshouldn't it contain
something like /usr/X11R6/lib/modules or /usr/lib/modules (after all
X11R6 is just a symlink to /usr)???

in order to make it possible o overcome the 85FPS limit of glxinfo. but
even if I was able to install new drm kernel modules

$ dmesg |grep drmshouldn't it contain something like
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules or /usr/lib/modules (after all X11R6 is just a
symlink to /usr)???
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
[drm] Initialized savage 2.4.1 20050313 on minor 0:
[drm] Used old pci detect: framebuffer loaded

I'm still unable to make it start X server with new savage_drv.so. I've
tried to backup the old copy and move the new one to

/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/savage_drv.so

but, as expected, startx returned

### startx ###
X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux teia 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 #9 Fri Jul 1
14:52:52 CEST 2005 i686
Build Date: 04 July 2005
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.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/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Jul 5 15:06:19 2005
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

Using vt 7
dlopen: /usr/lib/modules/drivers/savage_drv.so: undefined symbol:
XAAGetScreenIndex
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/modules/drivers/savage_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "savage" (loader failed, 7)
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.X.Org
for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional
information.

XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
### EOF ###

in doubt i verified the presence of symbol

$ nm /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libxaa.so |grep XAAGetScreenIndex
00004ec0 T XAAGetScreenIndex

in fact, if I try to add it to xorg.conf

### /etc/X11/xorg.conf ###
...
Section "Module"
Load "xaa"
...
EndSection
...
### EOF ###

startx, skips this step successfully but reports another 'undefined
symbol' on another step - after all I don't think I should add modules
to xorg.conf as workaround but the ld should load dynamically libraries
when needed.

so as 'make install' would probably do, I made a backup of entire
..../modules folder and copied there the new one

$ cp -LR /home/.../src/xc/exports/lib/modules /usr/X11R6/lib

and tried to startx once again

### startx ###
X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux teia 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 #9 Fri Jul 1
14:52:52 CEST 2005 i686
Build Date: 04 July 2005
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.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/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Jul 5 15:04:09 2005
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

Using vt 7
dlopen: /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so: undefined symbol:
glTexSubImage3D
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (loader failed, 7)
dlopen: /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.so: undefined symbol:
drmGetLibVersion
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.so
(EE) Failed to load module "dri" (loader failed, 7)
dlopen: /usr/lib/modules/drivers/savage_drv.so: undefined symbol:
XAAGetScreenIndex
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/modules/drivers/savage_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "savage" (loader failed, 7)
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.X.Org
for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional
information.

XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
### EOF ###

As you can notice this time the problem related to XAAGetScreenIndex
still perstists: meaning that the problem does not reside in modules,
nor probably different module structure, but somewhere in related to
dynamic library loader, IMHO.

here is my ld configuration

### /etc/ld.so.conf ###
# ld.so.conf autogenerated by env-update; make all changes to
# contents of /etc/env.d directory
/usr/local/lib
/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib
/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5-20050130
/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox
/usr/lib
/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01/jre/lib/i386/
/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01/jre/lib/i386/native_threads/
/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01/jre/lib/i386/classic/
/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01/jre/lib/i386/server/
### EOF ###

everything seems right. After all even if I try to

# ldconfig

every time I change modules, nothing changes - the problem exists.