Xorg failed to start after upgrading to 7.2

illoai at gmail.com illoai at gmail.com
Sun Jun 10 02:24:37 UTC 2007


On 09/06/07, Xihong Yin <xyin at bluebottle.com> top-posted:
> Thank you for answering my question.
>
> On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
> > Xihong Yin wrote:
> > > After upgrading Xorg from 6.8 to 7.2, I got the following error when I start X.
> > >
> > > (EE) Failed to load module "xtt" (module does not exist, 0 )
> > > (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0 )
> > > (EE) Failed to load module "module" (module does not exist, 0 )
> > > (EE) Failed to load module "kbd" (module does not exist, 0 )
> > >
> > > Before upgrading Xorg, I just upgraded FreeBSD from 6.0 to 6.2.
> > >

> > Quick guess: you are still using the same xorg.conf from your 6.8
> > install. You need to change the
> > ModulePath to /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules

> I did change my ModulePath to /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules in my xorg.conf file.
> Under my /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules, there are no such libs as xtt, vesa,
> mouse, and kbd.

There should be an entry "xorg-7.2"
in /var/db/pkg (I am going on a hunch
here), if not you need to install ports/x11/xorg

It would probably not be a bad idea to rerun
X -configure and ten-finger-merge the results
with your old config file.

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