Dear HdV, I've upgraded to woody on my armada E500 but installed it as potato. X ran fine on it. It has the same graphic cards so it must work on your system too.
No screens found means the total of the xserver is not installed. try xserver-xfree86 or something. You'r almost there... Suc6 Richarc At 18:27 03-10-2001 +0200, you wrote: >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] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
