Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 20:37:10 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Marijn van Vliet <w.m.vanvliet@student.utwente.nl> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg 7.2 update Message-ID: <20070528003710.GB13910@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070527215727.GD67158@lassie.student.utwente.nl> References: <E461B827-C0BA-4126-8BD1-83E60BA81884@earthlink.net> <b41c75520705271047od3375bdk449653e2edc70edc@mail.gmail.com> <20070527215727.GD67158@lassie.student.utwente.nl>
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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
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