thanks everyone got it working. did dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and filled it out again
and now it's working :-) thanks for the advice, much appriciated, andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Chandler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 5:08 PM Subject: Re: X won't start -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 Feb 2003 3:24 pm, Andy Van Hoof wrote: > Hi, > > i'm quite new to linux and i have an annoying problem... > > i just reinstalled debian (stable 3.0) and used tasksel to select some > packages, one of them the kde graphical environment. > > after the installation i got some automated setup stuff, telling me to > select my gfx card etc (it's a matrox productiva g100 agp), then i tried > running startx and it crashed on me saying: no usable screens found > look in /var/log/XFree86.log is should show all the messages as x starts up and you might be able to determine whats wrong from that. (its probably something to do with the options you are giving the screen device driver in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4) - -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RSuSuFHxcV2FFoIRAlx4AJ95+YiiOztiuCpy8gDo60cJcfLfYACgjhk4 ANXrSQ8NxhaqgCqDcew1cmI= =2aLF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
