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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
