Xfree setup: does AGP require anything special?
Doing a bit of advocay, I've managed to convince a friend to try Debian
on his newly put-together PC for a bit, while he saves up the £165 WinXP
tax.
Unfortunately, I'm not doing a great job. I did a netinstall from
debian-installer (12-01-04, FWIW, and it *rocks*!), but can't seem to
get X to come up at all.
I'll happily post any config files here, but (off the top of my head)
the problem is that X bombs after a couple of seconds with "no screens
found". He's got a NVidia FX mumble in there.
If I could get the damn thing to work with even the vesa driver, I'd
know where to start - but I can't. I've got mdetect, read-edid and
discover installed (all before apt-get installing xserver-xfree86), but
this doesn't seem to help.
So -
o any AGP gotchas I should look out for? I've only installed on a PCI
system before ..
o What's the lowest common denominator driver that I should be starting
with to get over the absolutely-no-GUI-accessible hurdle?
o What files can I post here to help you help me?
TIA - I really need some advice!
jc
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