Comment 48 for bug 103148

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Deffe (marc-defossez) wrote :

Hi again,

I'm now that far that I know what's causing the error.
What I don't know is why this error is generated at the place it is, in my opinion the reason has no relation with the error.

When I modified the display settings from within KDE, KDE wrote a new xorg.conf file.
In that file one line is wrong, afein it is not wrong but it points to something that doesn't exist on my PC.
   Result: the error.

In the file, the one I previousely attached, KDE wrote a section referring as: Section "Module" with some load commands.
Following 'man xorg.conf' this loads some modules from a path /usr/lib/modules/fonts or /usr/lib/modules/extensions.

On my PC there is no /usr/lib/modules directory and therfore the error appears.
    Don't know why it is not there.

When I just remove that line (set of line) from the xorg.conf file it works.

To simply solve the problem,
     X should ignore the sections where it can't find the files or section for and not error out into text mode.
     Maybe a warning could be generated to show the man behind the machine that something is not working as set.

Marc