I configured the monitor and video card with the same values I had been
using with X 3.3. I'm using a nVidia GeForce DDR 32 chipset with a
boring 17" CRT.
I tried fiddling with the Default Screen definition, but nothing I could
think of produced a valid screen.
-j
On 27 Apr 2002, Shyamal Prasad
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Jonathan David Pearce wrote:
> Just installed xserver-xfree86 and chose to manage my XF86Config-4 file
> using debconf. I went through the configuration process and tried to
> startx. Now I get
>
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration
>
> Fatal server error
"Jonathan" == Jonathan David Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jonathan> Just installed xserver-xfree86 and chose to manage my
Jonathan> XF86Config-4 file using debconf. I went through the
Jonathan> configuration process and tried to startx. Now I get
Jonathan> (EE) Screen(s)
On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 17:21, Jonathan David Pearce wrote:
> Just installed xserver-xfree86 and chose to manage my XF86Config-4 file
> using debconf. I went through the configuration process and tried to
> startx. Now I get
>
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration
>
> Fatal ser
What is your /etc/X11/X pointing to?
Jonathan David Pearce wrote:
> Just installed xserver-xfree86 and chose to manage my XF86Config-4 file
> using debconf. I went through the configuration process and tried to
> startx. Now I get
>
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration
>
> F
Just installed xserver-xfree86 and chose to manage my XF86Config-4 file
using debconf. I went through the configuration process and tried to
startx. Now I get
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration
Fatal server error:
no screens found
whenever I startx.
Any suggestions?
Since
DeJay wrote,
> > Did you have a coprocessor, and did you have xfs running?
> yes, I had a coprocessor.
> I believe you are referring to 'xdm', not xfs. i had xdm running as
> well. xfs (dos-based nfs client) was running on my 286, while pcnfsd
> nfsd and mountd were running on my 386.
Nope, I
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> De Jay wrote
> > FYI, when I tried running Netscape on my 386 with 8M RAM (30M swap),
> > it locked up my machine every time. you've been warned.
>
> Did you have a coprocessor, and did you have xfs running?
yes, I had a coprocessor.
I believ
>X on a 386? *laff* Don't bother. I've been there, done that, as the
>saying goes. However, if you really enjoy pain that much, try using
>the most generic settings: SVGA driver at 640x480 resoltion. Make
>sure you look at the README file for your video card.. Start your
>machine again wit
De Jay wrote
> FYI, when I tried running Netscape on my 386 with 8M RAM (30M swap),
> it locked up my machine every time. you've been warned.
Did you have a coprocessor, and did you have xfs running?
A yar and a half or so ago, someone using macbsd without a coprocessor
found that, contrary to w
X on a 386? *laff* Don't bother. I've been there, done that, as the
saying goes. However, if you really enjoy pain that much, try using
the most generic settings: SVGA driver at 640x480 resoltion. Make
sure you look at the README file for your video card.. Start your
machine again without tr
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> Hi all!!!
>
> I just installed Debian 2.0 in a 386 machine, during configuration of
> packages, I was asked if I wanted to create the XF86Config file, I said
> 'yes' and after specifying my card, mouse, etc, it tried to switch to
> graphics mode. All the
Hi all!!!
I just installed Debian 2.0 in a 386 machine, during configuration of
packages, I was asked if I wanted to create the XF86Config file, I said
'yes' and after specifying my card, mouse, etc, it tried to switch to
graphics mode. All the screen went blank, so I had to reboot. Now, how can I
>> Hi!
>> i'm pretty new to linux, and still struggling. i've installed bo 2
>> months ago.
>> I've AMD K6, 32M RAM, ATI Page II+ with 4M.
>>
>> i can't startx.
>> i wanted to ask whether anybody encountered special problems with ATI
>> Page II+, because my debian reacts only to ctrl+alt+del EVEN
Hi!
i'm pretty new to linux, and still struggling. i've installed bo 2
months ago.
I've AMD K6, 32M RAM, ATI Page II+ with 4M.
i can't startx.
i wanted to ask whether anybody encountered special problems with ATI
Page II+, because my debian reacts only to ctrl+alt+del EVEN after I
select
the gener
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On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> > you should not upgrade ssh when dselect or dpkg is running inside
> > a ssh session.
>
> If anybody else knows of any more gotchas with dselect, I'd love to hear
On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
> 'single' still has many daemon processes running - you can do some
> repair or maintainence work in single mode but you can't safely do an
> fsck because the disks are mounted rw.
>
> some other tasks (like moving a filesystem from one partition to
>
On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
>
> > I am currently working on a sort of HOWTO for dselect. It seems to
> > be a good idea to include a separate section dedicated to possible x
> > hassles.
>
> there's one other similar "gotcha" which i've r
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
> Yeah, this is a common problem. You should not upgrade x with dselect
> when running it in an xterm. Actually, I believe to have seen it once,
> somewhere in some documentation, but I can't remember where. Maybe I
> just remember it from neing mentioned on
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Charles Blair wrote:
> Thanks to Joost Kooi for suggesting I could bypass my mis-installed
> X installation by typing ``linux single'' at the LILO prompt. This
> allowed me to delete some stuff and salvage my system.
'single' still has many d
Marco Shinobu Matsumura wrote:
>
> .. I think it`d be interesting to describe what
> was my mistake: after following all the "how to update from an existing
> debian-1.2" instructions, I started dselect in a Xterm, and in the
> middle of the process dselect asked: "In order to upgrade to XFre
>
> Thanks to Joost Kooi for suggesting I could bypass my mis-installed
> X installation by typing ``linux single'' at the LILO prompt. This
> allowed me to delete some stuff and salvage my system.
>
> As a minor matter, typing ``linux emergency''
Thanks to Joost Kooi for suggesting I could bypass my mis-installed
X installation by typing ``linux single'' at the LILO prompt. This
allowed me to delete some stuff and salvage my system.
As a minor matter, typing ``linux emergency'' did not work. I was
able to ge
Debians,
Thank you in advance from a newbie. Any help in installing X would
be appreciated, especially regarding
o booting to a login screen
o configuring the mouse for left-handed use
I have been trying to install
Debian 1.2
from theInfo
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