I've been trying to get a generic no-name laptop up using Debian. The video chip is a S3 Virge / MX.
I started on Woody, then Sarge and now I'm on Sid. The problem is the same. (I've also tried RH7.2-RH8, I haven't yet tried RH9). After "startx", the screen clears, the hard disk light is on for a second, and then hard lock (no responce from the keyboard, network and still the same blank screen). The lcd is a generic 24bit 1024x768 panel. The processor is an amd k6. The Virge driver claims it can do 24 bit color, I dropped the default color depth to 8 with no effect. Any help, thanks, -Frank Baszler XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-5 20030122074040 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 18 October 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.19 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Wed Jan 29 03:07:49 2003 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout" (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Generic Monitor" (**) | |-->Device "Generic Video Card" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard" (**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc104" (**) XKB: model: "pc104" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us" (**) XKB: layout: "us" (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse" (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to "unix/:7100" (==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (--) using VT number 7 (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.5 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.3 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.3 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.3 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x8000198c, mode1Res1 = 0x80000000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,7100 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:02:0: chip 5333,8c03 card 5333,8c03 rev 03 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:03:0: chip 104c,ac16 card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 06,07,00 hdr 82 (II) PCI: 00:03:1: chip 104c,ac16 card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 06,07,00 hdr 82 (II) PCI: 00:04:0: chip 1014,007d card 1014,007d rev 00 class 04,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 8086,7110 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 8086,7111 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 01,01,80 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:2: chip 8086,7112 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:3: chip 8086,7113 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 06,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) LoadModule: "scanpci" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) UnloadModule: "scanpci" (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) PCI-to-ISA bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (-1,0,0), BCTRL: 0x08 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:7:0), (0,-1,0), BCTRL: 0x08 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus -1 I/O range: (II) Bus -1 non-prefetchable memory range: (II) Bus -1 prefetchable memory range: (--) PCI:*(0:2:0) S3 ViRGE/MX+MV rev 3, Mem @ 0xc0000000/26, BIOS @ 0x000c0000/16 (II) Addressable bus resource ranges are [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) Active PCI resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xfffefc00 - 0xfffeffff (0x400) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000cffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [2] -1 0 0xc0000000 - 0xc3ffffff (0x4000000) MX[B](B) [3] -1 0 0x0000f300 - 0x0000f31f (0x20) IX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00001100 - 0x0000110f (0x10) IX[B] (II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps: [0] -1 0 0xfffefc00 - 0xfffeffff (0x400) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000cffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [2] -1 0 0xc0000000 - 0xc3ffffff (0x4000000) MX[B](B) [3] -1 0 0x0000f300 - 0x0000f31f (0x20) IX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00001100 - 0x0000110f (0x10) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffefffff (0x100000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000cffff (0x10000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) All system resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffefffff (0x100000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000cffff (0x10000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xfffefc00 - 0xfffeffff (0x400) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000cffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [7] -1 0 0xc0000000 - 0xc3ffffff (0x4000000) MX[B](B) [8] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [9] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [10] -1 0 0x0000f300 - 0x0000f31f (0x20) IX[B] [11] -1 0 0x00001100 - 0x0000110f (0x10) IX[B] (II) LoadModule: "GLcore" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a Skip "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:debug_xform.o": No symbols found (II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "dbe" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a (II) Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER (II) LoadModule: "ddc" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Module ddc: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) LoadModule: "dri" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a (II) Module dri: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading sub module "drm" (II) LoadModule: "drm" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a (II) Module drm: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI (II) LoadModule: "extmod" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a (II) Module extmod: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension SHAPE (II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD (II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS (II) Loading extension SYNC (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (II) Loading extension XC-MISC (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension (II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA (II) Loading extension DPMS (II) Loading extension FontCache (II) Loading extension TOG-CUP (II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) LoadModule: "freetype" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a (II) Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.1.10 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.3 (II) Loading font FreeType (II) LoadModule: "glx" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading sub module "GLcore" (II) LoadModule: "GLcore" (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a (II) Loading extension GLX (II) LoadModule: "int10" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a (II) Module int10: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) LoadModule: "record" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/librecord.a (II) Module record: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.13.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension RECORD (II) LoadModule: "speedo" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a Skip "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o": No symbols found (II) Module speedo: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.0.1 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.3 (II) Loading font Speedo (II) LoadModule: "type1" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a (II) Module type1: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.0.1 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.3 (II) Loading font Type1 (II) Loading font CID (II) LoadModule: "vbe" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a (II) Module vbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) LoadModule: "vga" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/vga_drv.o (II) Module vga: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 4.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) LoadModule: "mouse" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.3 (II) VGA: Generic VGA driver (version 4.0) for chipsets: generic (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0 (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device (--) Chipset generic found (II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffefffff (0x100000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000cffff (0x10000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xfffefc00 - 0xfffeffff (0x400) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000cffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [7] -1 0 0xc0000000 - 0xc3ffffff (0x4000000) MX[B](B) [8] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [9] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [10] -1 0 0x0000f300 - 0x0000f31f (0x20) IX[B] [11] -1 0 0x00001100 - 0x0000110f (0x10) IX[B] (II) resource ranges after probing: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffefffff (0x100000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000cffff (0x10000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xfffefc00 - 0xfffeffff (0x400) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000cffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [7] -1 0 0xc0000000 - 0xc3ffffff (0x4000000) MX[B](B) [8] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B] [9] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B] [10] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B] [11] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [12] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [13] -1 0 0x0000f300 - 0x0000f31f (0x20) IX[B] [14] -1 0 0x00001100 - 0x0000110f (0x10) IX[B] [15] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B] [16] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B] (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (II) Loading sub module "int10" (II) LoadModule: "int10" (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a (II) VGA(0): initializing int10 (II) VGA(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (EE) VGA(0): Driver can't support depth 24 (II) UnloadModule: "vga" (II) UnloadModule: "int10" (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED]