after compiling xorg-server-1.5, the type1 module cannot be found and is thus not loaded, resulting in an error when running startx. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge xorg-server-1.5 2. startx Actual Results: error loading type1 module Expected Results: no error
type1 rasterizer module was removed, because it doesn't offer anything over the freetype rasterizer now that CID font support (if you don't know what it is, you don't need it) was removed altogether. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-August/027215.html has details. Are you sure you want to list modules to load in your xorg.conf? These days the less you explicitly specify in xorg.conf the better - it has enough autodetection smarts that these days you can most of the time get away with no xorg.conf existing at all. That said, on my machine /etc/X11/xorg.conf.example seems to still suggest type1 module loading from xorg-server-1.5.0 install, which is in this case wrong and something to fix.
There is indeed an error, but since it's not fatal, you can simply ignore it. If you want to remove the error message, just remove the corresponding Load line from your xorg.conf. Thanks
