Bug 236902

Summary:	xorg-server 1.5 doesn't compile type1 module
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	R Bar-On <rb6>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	jrmalaq
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description R Bar-On 2008-09-06 22:25:54 UTC

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

Comment 1 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2008-09-08 00:15:42 UTC

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.

Comment 2 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-10-29 13:33:35 UTC

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