x11 missing modules on 7.0rc1 ?

Steve Franks stevefranks at ieee.org
Tue Jan 22 15:33:26 PST 2008


On Jan 22, 2008 4:02 PM, David Alanis <canito at dalan.us> wrote:
>
> Quoting Steve Franks <stevefranks at ieee.org>:
>
> > Maybe I missed something critical, but I just decided to give 7.0rc1 a
> > shot, did a standard x-user install on a fresh system (older 1.3GHz
> > laptop), went smoothly, but startx reports "(EE) Failed to load module
> > "mouse" (modules does not exist, 0)", (and kbd, and radeon) which
> > seems a tad strange.  If it's really not an issue where I forgot to
> > RTFM somewhere, I thought I'd post it so it can be looked at.  I'm now
> > in the process of reinstalling xorg from the metaport...don't see any
> > earlier posts on this topic, so I must be an idiot here somewhere...
> >
> > Steve
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> Steve:
>
> What did you do to configure X? If you configured your xorg.conf what
> selection do you have for your mouse bus (PS2, USB, sorry can't
> remember the default since I don't run X)? Also, do you have the
> drivers installed for your video card and which drivers are you using?
>
> Thx,
> David
>
Further investigation shows that xorg-drivers-7.3 is missing.  I'm not
sure how that happened since choosing "X-User" on the 7.0rc1 install
cd, but I'll be rectifying it shortly as soon as I extract the latest
portsnap.

Steve


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