gdm fails to start

[Jim Cornette]

Andrzej Maciejewski wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>> Andrzej Maciejewski wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> after the last two updates of kernel I had and have serious problems.
>>> gdm fails to start and X reports that modules bitmap and pcidata cannot be
>>> found. I have generate new xorg.conf using Xorg -configure but this does
>>> not help. 
>>> thanks for any help.
>>> -Andrzej
>>>
>> Have you tried running system-config-display with the --reconfig option? 
>> You might need to drop to runlevel 3 to have good results.
>>
>> Jim
>>
> I have drop to runlevel 3 and reconfigred display. It does not help; X
> reprts the same error.
> -Andrzej 
>

I ran a search and it showed two config files for bitmap.
/etc/fonts/conf.d/no-bitmaps.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/yes-bitmaps.conf

A package called fontconfig provides these files.

I have modular X, but you should have a similar module named libpcidata.so


Sorry the program failed to get you up and running. I don't think that 
your problem is related to the configuration file for xorg. To me, it 
sounds like either X needs an update to be compatible with the kernel, 
the kernel needs to either provide something that was turned off, or 
something went wrong during the update process.

Does X start from a user logged in using runlevel 3 and using startx to 
launch X, or do you get the same error?

Jim

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