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WickedZebra

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Registered: 2008-04-23

Posts: 3

Xorg error: Failed to load module 'type1'

I am running arch under virtualbox.
I set up Xorg according to the HOWTO wiki page for Xorg and KDE.
when I do 'startx' I get this error:

(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)

How do I solve this?

p.s. how can I copy the entire .log file to outside of virtualbox (running winxp)?

thanks

eskay

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Registered: 2008-04-23

Posts: 23

Re: Xorg error: Failed to load module 'type1'

comment out the type1 line under the "Modules" section. does that help?

tigrmesh

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Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Xorg error: Failed to load module 'type1'

Have a look at the wiki page for xorg:  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg.

Edit:  I really don't think commenting out the modules line will help.

Last edited by tigrmesh (2008-04-23 13:53:24)

watsonalgas

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Registered: 2007-01-15

Posts: 92

Re: Xorg error: Failed to load module 'type1'

Have a look at the wiki page for xorg:  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg.

Edit:  I really don't think commenting out the modules line will help.

Yes it does help, why not?  That way xorg won't try to load it on startup, so there will be no error.  This is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf by the way.

Comment the line

Load           "type1"

in the Module section since recent versions of xorg-server does not include the type1 font module (completely replaced by freetype).

Last edited by watsonalgas (2008-04-23 18:42:56)

tigrmesh

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Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Xorg error: Failed to load module 'type1'

My bad.  I mis-read eskay's post.  I thought he was suggesting commenting out this line in the "Files" section:

ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"

I apologize for causing confusion.