x11 missing modules on 7.0rc1 ?

Ghirai ghirai at ghirai.com
Tue Jan 22 15:36:47 PST 2008


On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:02:13 -0600
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

Happened to me too, i was installing it for a friend (worked fine when
i installed it for myself a couple days earlier).

You need to manually install /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse.

It should work fine then.

-- 
Regards,
Ghirai.


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