On Thursday 19 December 2002 03:15 am, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Thursday 19 December 2002 12:59 am, you wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:41:07PM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > Hi there: > > > Guess I'm new around here, so hello to everyone. > > > I recently bought a IBM ThinkPad A31, which uses a ATI Radeon 7500 > > > mobiliti as it's video card. Using woody, I can't setup my X server. > > > when I issue the command "startx" it gives me fatal errors like: "no > > > screen found". I checked the screen section of the XFree86 config file, > > > and it seems to be ok. As I have also installed mandrake 9.0 on this > > > machine and mandrake worked flawlessly (with 24 bit colour and > > > 1400x1050 > > > resouloution), I thought the problem might be because mandrake uses > > > XFree86 4.2.1 and woody uses 4.1.0, so I upgraded X to 4.2.1 but things > > > didn't improve. Am I missing anything here? or has anyone experienced > > > something similar with Radeon 7500? > > > > 4.2.1 should work.. how did you upgrade? > > finding a repository with 4.2.1 backported to woody, then upgrading using > apt-get. > I think It's not a matter of 4.2.1 versus 4.1.0, because according to > XFree86 documentation, radeon chips are also supported in 4.1.0. I wonder > though, if there is a diffrence between radeon 7500, and radeon 7500 > mobility. > > cheers > > Aryan
http://www.columbia.edu/~ot14/fujitsu.html Same chip and OS. Oleg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
