On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Andrew D. wrote:
> After reading your e-mail, Marc, I instantly rebooted from Win98 (where
> I'm reading this info) to Mandrake Linux's Failsafe. I logged in a root,
> edited my XF86Config-4 file and commented out the "PCIbus" line. I
> closed that down, and followed your instructions for replacing the
> libpcidata.a file with my libscanpci.a file. After that, I rebooted my
> machine. Upon starting Mandrake 10 normally, I was given the following
> error by my X-Server:
> (EE) LoadModule: Module pcidata does not have a pcidataModuleData data
> object.
Doh! Silly me...
> Attached is the new log file. Thanks so much for your input and your
> quick responses. If only Microsoft gave tech support this quickly.
> ~~ Andrew
> Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> It turns out there's a straightforward workaround for this problem. As
> root, do ...
> cd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
> cp libpcidata.a libpcidata.backup
> cp libscanpci.a libpcidata.a
Replace that last command with ...
sed 's/scanpci/pcidata/g' < libscanpci.a > libpcidata.a
(Good thing the two strings are the same length...)
> ... and stop and restart the X server. The "BusID" specification should
> then be unnecessary (as would removing the Sound Blaster adapter).
Marc.
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