| sean finney on 17 May 2007 08:19:15 -0000 |
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hi greg, On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 23:19 -0400, Greg Helledy wrote: > Last night I did a dist-upgrade on my kanotix 2005-4 install, with apt > pointing towards Debian testing and stable. > It seems to have gone mostly ok but x will not start. I get an error > message that modules "bitmap" and "pcidata" cannot be loaded. > In xorg.conf, my ModulePath is /usr/X11R6/lib/modules, however when I look > in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions, it is empty. > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts was empty, too but I found a directory called > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/modules/fonts and copied it over. my guess is that the problem has arisen as a result of the migration. i know the xorg folks spent huge amounts of time to ensure intra-debian upgrade paths would work, but i don't think we can fault them for paths originating from outside debian :) the first thing i'd recommend is regenerating your xorg.conf (dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, iirc), because there are probably subtle differences,such as changed paths in your config file, which weren't automatically migrated during upgrade. sean Attachment:
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