Re: xserver-xorg won't start
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:45:28 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
> 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.
I guess it takes a while for more recent posts to catch up. As it stands
right now I've only the one error; missing x.ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType
in /var/lib/defoma.
Just creating the directory doesn't help, unfortunately.
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