[ale] PEX and XIE Problems

[John M. Mills]

Just like TLT:
On 16 Jul, Terry Lee Tucker wrote:
> Hello RedHatters:
> 
> I'm using XFree86.  When I do a startx, I get two messages on the
> console:
> PEX extension module not loaded
> XIE extension module not loaded

cr To fix these, see the XF86Config man page.  The syntax is something like

cr ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
cr Load pex5.so
cr Load xie.so

Following that suggestion, I added a Section "Module" to my XF86Config, with
the recommended entries*, which indeed appeared to exist.  X crashed with the
following error message:
 [* actually, since it crashed as given, I put full pathnames in the 'Load's]

[...]
Config Error: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config:43

Load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/pex5.so
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Dynamic module expected

Fatal server error:
Child error writing to pipe (Broken pipe)
[...]

But when I check the prospective modules, I get:

jmills:~$ file /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/pex5.so /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/xie.so 
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/pex5.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1, not stripped
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/xie.so:  ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1, not stripped

This is a 'vanilla' new XFree installation off RedHat 4.2 'Power Tools' disk
set.  Anyone know what's up?

Regards -- jmm --

John M. Mills, Senior Research Engineer   --   john.m.mills at gtri.gatech.edu
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