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. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
