Re: xserver-xorg won't start
Le dimanche 09 août 2009 18:11:23, S. Fishpaste a écrit :
> On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 16:33:27 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme in
gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
> > Le dimanche 09 août 2009 15:34:48, S. Fishpaste a écrit :
> >> I can't figure out what's wrong but from searching for a solution it's
> >> seems to have happened to others
> >>
> >> On a P3 Toshiba Laptop fresh install of Lenny -- I can't get the
> >> Xserver to start. It just says no screens found yadda, yadda.
> >>
> >> I don't have any xorg.conf file to dpkg-reconfigure either. Suggestions
> >> ?
> >
> > Copy here lines starting with (WW) and (EE) in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> >
> > egrep "^(\(WW\)|\(EE\))" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>
> Thomas, I have since used a generic xorg.conf that I found on a website
> listing some configs for laptops. So I'm making a little progress; Now what
> I'm getting are specific error messages. :-)
>
> The requested output:
> (WW) The directory "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/" does not exist.
> (WW) The directory "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" does not exist.
> (WW) The directory "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/sun/" does not exist.
> (WW) The directory "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/F3bitmaps/" does not exist.
> (WW) The directory "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" does not exist.
> (WW) The directory "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" does not exist.
> (WW) The directory "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" does not exist.
> (WW) FontPath is completely invalid. Using compiled-in default.
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module pcidata
> (EE) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module does not exist, 0)
> (WW) xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
> (WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
Wow, this looks heavy because libpcidata is packaged in xserver-xorg-core.
First try (in root) : aptitude clean && aptitude reinstall xserver-xorg-core
and tell us if the error is still here.
>
> So now when I manually enter 'startx' as user the only message returned is
> 'pcidata module failed to load'. I think the other messages may be from
> earlier on this morning. Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Thomas Preud'homme
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