Hi out there, I tried, but it seems I lack the experience needed to solve this. I hope some kind soul on the list can help me out.
Today I've installed potato on a Compaq Armada M300, which was easy enough to do. After I finished the base install without X I did some of the necessary stuff, like closing all unwanted LISTENing ports and doing the apt-get update & upgrade routine. So far no problem. But I like the eye-candy X can give me, so I installed X, which resulted in a very weird (almost drug-induced-like) image on VT7. So I read up on the topic and found some messages on the net suggesting that you should upgrade to XFree86 4 to get it working propperly. Well, since cpbotha made a nice set of debs available I just did that and afterwards ran xf86cfg. However that didn't get me far (no mouse and it segfaults when you actually try to configure a device). So I tried a text-mode configuration with xf86config, choosing ATI Rage 128 as the driver (the ATI Rage LT Pro is not listed and someone suggested this was the closest relative). Upon finishing that I ran startx and as a reward got an error message stating there were "no screens found". I tried to find more information about this problem, but wasn't sucessful. >From /var/log/XFree86.0.log: (--) PCI:*(0:5:0) ATI Mach64 LI rev 220, Mem @ 0x40000000/24, 0x41080000/12, I/O @ 0x3000/8 So the card was sucessfully probed. The last lines in the log say: (II) APM: driver for the Alliance chipsets: AP6422, AT24, AT3D (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:05:0 (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found There are no other errors or warnings, just (II) lines. That's about all leads I have. Can someone on the list point me in the right direction? I'd appreciate your help. Grx HdV -- Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have. J.A. de Vries aka HdV Delft University of Technology Computing Centre Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
