From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 23 06:33:32 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3833E16A46C for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:33:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF4B913C49D for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:33:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l7N6XUlw040446; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:33:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l7N6XTOP040445; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:33:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:33:29 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Boris Samorodov Message-ID: <20070823063329.GC38080@thought.org> References: <20070822191147.GA36193@thought.org> <77635509@bsam.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <77635509@bsam.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: xdm fails! can't find "pcidata" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:33:32 -0000 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