Re: Debian on an iBook

[James Dunn]

I can't find all the characters to type this command! egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/XFree86.0.log I guessing my keyboard is not configured properly either - the characters I can't find are ^ and ' although there is a similar apostrophe. Here's is the contents of  /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 : # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using # values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. # (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86 # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following commands as root: # #   cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom #   md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum #   dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Section "Files"     FontPath    "unix/:7100"            # local font server     # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these     FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"     FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"     FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"     FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"     FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"     FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"     FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"     FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"     FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"    EndSection Section "Module"     Load    "GLcore"     Load    "bitmap"     Load    "dbe"     Load    "ddc"     Load    "dri"     Load    "extmod"     Load    "freetype"     Load    "glx"     Load    "int10"     Load    "record"     Load    "speedo"     Load    "type1"     Load    "vbe"    EndSection Section "InputDevice"     Identifier    "Generic Keyboard"     Driver        "keyboard"     Option        "CoreKeyboard"     Option        "XkbRules"    "xfree86"     Option        "XkbModel"    "macintosh"     Option        "XkbLayout"    "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice"     Identifier    "Configured Mouse"     Driver        "mouse"     Option        "CorePointer"     Option        "Device"        "/dev/psaux"     Option        "Protocol"        "PS/2" EndSection Section "InputDevice"     Identifier    "Generic Mouse"     Driver        "mouse"     Option        "SendCoreEvents"    "true"     Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"     Option        "Protocol"        "ImPS/2" EndSection Section "Device"     Identifier    "ATI Radeon Mobility 7500"     Driver        "ati"     BusID        "PCI:0:10:0"     VideoRam    32768 EndSection Section "Monitor"     Identifier    "Generic Monitor"     HorizSync    28-33     VertRefresh    43-72     Option        "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen"     Identifier    "Default Screen"     Device        "ATI Radeon Mobility 7500"     Monitor        "Generic Monitor"     DefaultDepth    24     SubSection "Display"         Depth        1         Modes        "640x480"     EndSubSection     SubSection "Display"         Depth        4         Modes        "640x480"     EndSubSection     SubSection "Display"         Depth        8         Modes        "640x480"     EndSubSection     SubSection "Display"         Depth        15         Modes        "640x480"     EndSubSection     SubSection "Display"         Depth        16         Modes        "640x480"     EndSubSection     SubSection "Display"         Depth        24         Modes        "640x480"     EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout"     Identifier    "Default Layout"     Screen        "Default Screen"     InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"     InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"     InputDevice    "Generic Mouse" EndSection Section "DRI"     Mode    0666 EndSection Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 14:21:16 +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. Fatal server error: no screens found Something is really misconfigured. The quickest way to solve this is probably for you to post your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, so that we can get a better idea of what is going on. Also, run the command egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/XFree86.0.log and include its output, so that we can see all error messages and warnings of your X server.