From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 28 00:37:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB33E16A46D for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 00:37:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7C6F13C44C for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 00:37:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F29331A3C19; Sun, 27 May 2007 17:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [192.168.1.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE658513C5; Sun, 27 May 2007 20:37:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D6F06C1A2; Sun, 27 May 2007 20:37:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 20:37:10 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Marijn van Vliet Message-ID: <20070528003710.GB13910@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20070527215727.GD67158@lassie.student.utwente.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070527215727.GD67158@lassie.student.utwente.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg 7.2 update X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 00:37:11 -0000 On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:57:27PM +0200, Marijn van Vliet wrote: > On 19:47, Sun 27 May 07, Claus Guttesen wrote: > > >I just updated my 6.2 box to the new Xorg 7.2 distro. I followed all > > >the directions in the UPDATING file. It appears all the directories > > >have been properly built. I also successfully ran the "mergebase.sh" > > >script from the Tools/scripts directory. However, when I try to run > > >X, I get the following error: > > > > > >(EE) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module does not exist), 0) > > >Fatal server error: > > >Unable to load required base modules, Exiting.... > > > > I had the same error when I reused an old xorg.conf. I commented out > > some modules, until it worked. Don't remember which one though. > > I had this and another problem when upgrading. This problem was sovled > by correcting the paths in xorg.conf. ...as documented. > The other problem was a message > about the default font (fixed) not being found. This is solved by manually > reinstalling font-misc-misc and font-cursor-mic: > portupgrade -f font-misc-misc font-cursor-misc > > Why this works, I have no idea. Do the fonts get corrupted by the > mergebase script? After some googling I noticed more users were having > this problem. Yes, and none of them have yet provided a log of the build so we can try to work out why. Feel free to help us out. Kris