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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati
  
  During a partial upgrade from karmic to lucid, I wanted to restart X after updating the X packages but it didn't come back.
  Looking at the gdm log the error could be found pretty fast:
    /usr/bin/X: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so: undefined symbol: radeon_cs_create
  
  At this point xserver-xorg-video-radeon was already updated to
  1:6.12.99+git20091125.0061c4db-0ubuntu2 (lucid) while libdrm-radeon1 was
  still at 2.4.14-1ubuntu1 (karmic). Updating libdrm-radeon1 to
  2.4.17-0ubuntu1 (lucid) fixed it and my X started again.
  
  I looked then at the dependencies of xserver-xorg-video-radeon I saw that it's missing a dependency on libdrm-radeon1 at all:
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libpciaccess0, xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.6.99.900)
  Looking further at the needed libraries of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so:
  $ objdump -x /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so | grep NEEDED
    NEEDED               libpixman-1.so.0
    NEEDED               libdrm_radeon.so.1
    NEEDED               libdrm.so.2
    NEEDED               libpciaccess.so.0
    NEEDED               libc.so.6
  other needed libraries are missing in Depends too. While at least libpixman-1-0 and libdrm2 are pulled in through xserver-xorg-core depending on them (still are direct dependency would be better than a indirect one), libdrm-radeon1 is only pulled in through a recommendation:
  $ aptitude why xserver-xorg-video-radeon libdrm-radeon1
  i   xserver-xorg-video-radeon Depends    xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.6.99.900)
  i A xserver-xorg-core         Recommends libgl1-mesa-dri (>= 7.1~rc1)       
  i   libgl1-mesa-dri           Depends    libdrm-radeon1 (>= 2.4.12)
  But this doesn't assure that libdrm-radeon1 is installed at all and even in the correct version needed by xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
+ 
+ [lspci]
+ 00:00.0 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 Memory Controller [10de:0444] (rev a3)
+     	Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:5001]
+ 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV670PRO [Radeon HD 3850] [1002:9505]
+     	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:0234]

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xserver-xorg-video-radeon has insufficient (even missing) dependency on libdrm-radeon1 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507618
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