[Gllug] X stop working after Ximian red-carpet update
Darren Evans
devans at presscentre.net
Tue Nov 20 03:08:17 UTC 2001
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 12:43:46AM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 07:28:09PM +0000, Darren Evans wrote:
> > It says the module does not exists even though modules.conf has not
> > changed.
>
> Wrong type of module. XFree86 4.x has replaced the old module of a
> separate server for each type of card to a generic server which loads a
> module to match the card type (and there are also modules for specific X
> features). So none of the things you listed at the beginning are
> relevant. This is an X config problem.
Turned out the files extracted from the RPM were missing/corrupt,
whether Ximian corrupted them or not, I don't know.
Sorry, yes X module, i got confused there, that was what was
missing.
I highly recommend knowing something like
rpm -Vqsv installedrpm
This can save so much time, it's unreal.
regards,
Darren
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