Re: Debian without screen]

2011-05-07 Thread Jason White
Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: > My screen didn't like a power surge that we had, so that's not an > option at the moment. However, I solved the problem by going back > to kernel 2.6.31 and removing the xorg.conf file altogether. perhaps disabling the kernel driver for your video control

Re: Debian without screen]

2011-05-07 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 02:23:35AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > It seems to me like a new behavior of the dummy driver. I have reported > it on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36925 > > In the meanwhile, you'll unfortunately have to plug a screen. > > Samuel My screen didn't li

Re: Debian without screen]

2011-05-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson, le Thu 05 May 2011 21:31:32 +1000, a écrit : > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 06:37:36PM +1000, Jason White wrote: > > Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: > > > > > > I'm trying to run Debian without a screen. When it has finished > > > loading, I get a braille display wit

Re: Debian without screen]

2011-05-05 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Did you define the default resolution for your screen in xorg.conf? Looks like the driver is defaulting to a resolution of 0x0. Kenny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: Debian without screen]

2011-05-05 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 06:37:36PM +1000, Jason White wrote: > Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: > > > > I'm trying to run Debian without a screen. When it has finished > > loading, I get a braille display without any dots. When I check > > /var/log/gdm3/:0.log, it ends with "Fatal server err

Re: Debian without screen

2011-05-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
loredana, le Wed 04 May 2011 16:23:16 +0200, a écrit : > Sorry, this may be considered slightly out of topic, nevertheless... > > On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 13:00 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > The issue is that xorg.conf does not exist in fresh installations any > > more. > > Why not? Because

Re: Debian without screen

2011-05-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
loredana (04/05/2011): > What I am asking for is to keep text configuration files by default, > because they could be really useful in solving in a very simple and > generalized way plenty of problems, or just for documentation and > pedagogic purposes. Because it's not useful at all to have boil

Re: Debian without screen

2011-05-04 Thread loredana
Sorry, this may be considered slightly out of topic, nevertheless... On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 13:00 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > The issue is that xorg.conf does not exist in fresh installations any > more. Why not? It is the same question I posed a long while ago to the debian laptop mailing li

Re: Debian without screen

2011-05-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jason White, le Wed 04 May 2011 19:14:12 +1000, a écrit : > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > That should read: > > > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "NoScreen" > > Driver "dummy" > > EndSection > > Correct; I only specified the line that had to be changed rather than the > whole sect

Re: Debian without screen

2011-05-04 Thread Jason White
Cyril Brulebois wrote: > That should read: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "NoScreen" > Driver "dummy" > EndSection Correct; I only specified the line that had to be changed rather than the whole section. I should have made this clearer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-acce

Re: Debian without screen

2011-05-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jason White (04/05/2011): > You need to install xserver-xorg-video-dummy (the "dummy" video > driver) and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to enable it: > > Section "device" > driver "dummy" > > I'm not completely sure that the above is correct, but it should be close. That should read: Section "De

Re: Debian without screen

2011-05-04 Thread Jason White
Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: > > I'm trying to run Debian without a screen. When it has finished > loading, I get a braille display without any dots. When I check > /var/log/gdm3/:0.log, it ends with "Fatal server error: no > screens found". I'm running Sid and the problem occurred afte

Debian without screen

2011-05-04 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings, I'm trying to run Debian without a screen. When it has finished loading, I get a braille display without any dots. When I check /var/log/gdm3/:0.log, it ends with "Fatal server error: no screens found". I'm running Sid and the problem occurred after my lates software upgrade. The ke