Re: Problem on first boot

[Eric O]

Well, after just reinstalling etch it seems as though just changing ati to vesa got it to start X.  Is there an easy way to get fglrx working?  Cause I can definitely tell a performance lag with the vesa drivers.  I did a search for a deb in google and this came up, http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fglrx-driver.html .  Do you think it would be fine to install it in etch even though its for sid?

Kent West wrote:
> Eric O wrote:
> > After installing debian etch, the first boot doesn't start up X11. It
> > comes up with an error saying there are no screens. I have an ATi
> > X1600 Pro which does work in Ubuntu and other distros. I would like to
> > use debian over ubuntu, but as of right now I have no choice. I was
> > playing around with debian before I installed it on VMware and I had
> > not a problem. I know that ubuntu uses the vesa driver and not the ati
> > driver that debian puts in xorg.conf, could that make any difference?
>
> Using the vesa driver should get you going. As long as you haven't
> manually edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf, you can change this by running
> "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg".
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