What graphics card are you using? Nvidia or ATI? Did you install the appropriate drivers? Did you change the driver setting in your XF86Config ? There's a dell laptop users mailing list on yahoo groups which is where I figured out how to get my inspiron to work. Go through their archives and files section, its useful stuff.
Naitik. On 07 Oct 2003 00:50:34 +0200 Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mon, 2003-10-06 um 16.37 schrieb Jon Haugsand: > > The Dell C400 is troublesome, in particular with Debian since its > > policy of conservative upgrades. Anyway, I have downloaded the > > following packages: > > > > XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Debian 4.3.0-0ds2.0.0woody1 20030307145421 > > marcelo@) kernel-source-2.4.22 > > > > The kernel recompiled with settings as recommended. However, when > > issuing startx, the screens goes black, 30-60 seconds goes by, > > suddenly the screen looks X like with the X mouse pointer, but then > > I am back to console mode again. Looking into the > > /var/log/XFree86.0.log and grepping out (WW), (EE) and Warning, I > > get this: > > [...] > > > Any idea of what goes wrong? Or how to debug my situation? > > There is nothing wrong to see here. Please post the complete log. > Or try starting X manually: > > $ X > $ export DISPLAY=:0 > $ xterm > > If you have a working X with a xterm running now, there is probably a > problem with your windowmanager (KDE, Gnome?) or Displaymanager (GDM, > XDM, KDM etc.) > > HTH > -- > > Matthias Hentges > Cologne / Germany > > [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated > ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's > > My OS: Debian Woody. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
