On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:17:04AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:22:03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:36AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > >> Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse > >> problem I'm ready to tackle X not starting. > >> > >> When I boot I get a couple of attempts for gdm to start. After that > >> fails there is an error message stating > >> > >> Fatal server error: > >> no screens found. > >> > >> I tried xf86config and had to abandon it when my video card wasn't > >> listed. It wasn't listed as an option during the installation > >> process. I'm assuming that that is the problem. Is it likely? > >> > >> I did > >> > >> apt-cache search radeon > >> > >> and found nothing. > >> > >> Am I even going in the right direction? > >> > >> I'm attaching the error log and config file > >> > > > >The radeon driver is in the Mandrake (I think 9.0), which autoconfigured > >X for my Radeon 8500DV usably (but I suspect still no accelleration). > >(HOwever, it set so many security barriers in the way of networking that > >I gave up and switched to Debian). The radeon driver, I believe, just > >on the threshold for sid. I'm using woody, though, with woody's > >vesa driver in woody. Of course I won't get any acceleration. > >It does come up with xdm properly, then crashes when I log in. > >The mouse pointer moves nicely, but it doesn't register clicks. > > > >I tried the drivers from ATI, but they did not work. Even the shell script > >that was supposed to tell me which version of the ATI driver to use > >crashed, with an error that suggested it wasn't a valid shell script. > > Where is this ATI driver? All I could find were some RPMs.
Those are the ones. You have to haul them through alien, and apparently there are compatibility problems even after you have done so -- different versions of files that occur in other Debian packages and so forth. My current problems may be because I still have ghosts of those drivers on my system. -- hendrik > > > ----------------------------------------- > Please leave this. It is a filter term. > ferulebezel > ----------------------------------------- > Mark Healey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Don't bothor CCing or emailing this address. Since spammers seem to be harvesting > this > list anything that doesn't come from the list server is assumed to be spam and > deleted. > ASUS A87V8X mobo w AMD Athalon > Broadcom 4401 onboard nic > with static IP Address > ATI All-In-Wonder 9700 Video card. > Sampo Alphascan 17mx monitor > > > -- > 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]
