Re: Dell Optiplex and X not working ('no screens found')

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (05/04/05 16:22), Alexander Koch wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> hopefully someone can help. I have a nice Dell box here
> with an unidentified graphics card (ATI, but no idea what
> else). It is the Dell Optiplex GX 280, and when saying I
> want the 'ati' driver for X11 it just bombs out with the
> message 'no screens found' and nothing else. The XF86Config
> is identical to my old version on some box with nv drivers,
> and I tried everything - from changing the 'Driver' from
> 'nv' to 'ati' up to redoing dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
> from scratch, etc.
Log at /var/log/XFree86.0.log and post the output here. The clues as to
what's broken are lines starting with (EE) .

Regards

Clive

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