X doesn't start

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 16:49 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008 19:57:10 +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 19 May 2008, Peter Lesterhuis wrote:
> 	[...]
> >> After upgrading my HP-laptop to F9 the x-server doesn't start. 
> 
> > Does it help to not try to load the record and type1 modules ? Put a #
> > before the lines Load "record" and Load "type1" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> 
> 	I'm not the OP, but I have a similar problem : startx fails, both 
> as root and as user. 
> 
> 	The machine here (the only one with that F9 problem) is my main 
> (newest, biggest,fastest) PC; and I get a different error message.
> 
> 	Nevertheless, I thought I might as well try commenting those 
> lines out. But the xorg.conf file there does not contain the word "load"

This has been said before, but it's worth repeating: in F9 it's often
better simply to not have an xorg.conf file at all and let the driver
work it out for itself.

poc