On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 02:21:16PM +0100, James Dunn wrote: > I've tried reconfiguring xserver as described below, but no luck. I > looked at lspci, and it says: > > 0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon > Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] > Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 48 > Memory at 98000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] > I/O ports at 802400 [size=256] > Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] > Expansion ROM at 90020000 [disabled] [size=128K] > Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 > > when I type startx, it says: > > (EE) No devices detected. > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > X10: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining > > I looked at var/log/XFree86.0.log and at the end of the file it says: > > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:10:0 > (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 M7 LW". > (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:16:9) > found > (EE) No devices detected.
my guess is that you've mis-entered the bus information into your xserver configuration. the Primary Device above is PCI 00:10:0 and the (WW) line refers to PCI:0:16:9 the lspci output above says, to my eyes that the bus id should be PCI:00:16:0 where its entered in decimal in the configuration program and displayed in hex by lspci. but, follow FLorian's advice and post that stuff for us. A > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > > > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:34:18AM +0100, James Dunn wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I have just installed Debian onto my iBook (900MHz PowerPC G3, 640MB > >>SDRAM, ATY Rage M7 Video). I followed the instructions here: > >>http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html > >>1) Debian boots ok, but the X Server isn't configured properly - is > >>there a guide to do this? (i'm a newbie!) > >> > > > >there are many guides. the basic procedure though, is to figure out > >what hardware you have (lspci -vv and look for the video controller) > >and then dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86... sometimes over and over > >until you get it right. It helps if youjust use startx to test you > >xf86config as there's less overhead and IMO fewer potential problems > >than as associated with [g|k|x]dm. Once you get a working X setup, if > >you want to use a *dm, then you will know that any further problems > >aren't associated with X. be sure to post your problems up here as > >many can help you. be sure to include ouput from > >/var/log/Xfree86.log.0 with a focus on (EE) lines in that log. > >
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