Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:33:29 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xdm fails! can't find "pcidata" Message-ID: <20070823063329.GC38080@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <77635509@bsam.ru> References: <20070822191147.GA36193@thought.org> <77635509@bsam.ru>
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 12:16:10AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:11:47 -0700 Gary Kline wrote: > > > I just rebooted my DNS server and now X fails. I'm pretty sure I > > did everything re the xorg instructions in UPDATING. The error > > message in /var/lob/Xorg.0.log says exactly:: > > > (II) Loader running on freebsd > > (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" > > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module pcidata > > (II) UnloadModule: "pcidata" > > (EE) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module does not exist, 0) > > > How can I fix this? I find pcidata deep in the > > /usr/sys/src.../dev directory. Nothing in my KERNCONF=GENERIC > > file. Insights, anybody?? > > I've seen something like this after Xorg-6.9 to Xorg-7.1 update. Seems > that I succeeded after deletting my old xorg.conf file, creating a new > one and fitting it. > Yeah, you're right; creating a new one would have been the most logical thing. But at least I learned that the "modules" have been moved to /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules. I did a wholesale 1,$s/X11R6/local/gp and that failed because the old path was /usr/X11R6/lib/modules. I'll know if this works in the morning localtime. My brain is fried. cheers, gary > > WBR > -- > bsam -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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