Fw: xserver problem -no screens found
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Tierney" <simon@conditional-fee.co.uk>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: xserver problem -no screens found
> Hello again,
>
> I have examined the output (several pages of it) provided by Debian after
> the Xserver fails to load.
>
> There are lines identifying the S3Trio card and the PCI bridge and a lot
of
> repeated lines:-
> "not loading .debug_line"
>
> module "pex5" does not exist, so it says.
>
> lots more "not loading .debug_line"
>
> (II) loading s3virge
> (II) S3VIRGE: driver (version 1.6.13) etc
>
> then:-
>
> (assigning device section with no bus ID to primary device
> (EE) no devices detected
>
> Fatal server error no screens found.
>
> I have used Debian and I do not know how to send the full text of the
error
> log without a GUI -in fact I don't even know if the network is working
> correctly yet.
>
> Does any of this output explain the problem?
>
> Simon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>
> To: "Simon Tierney" <simon@conditional-fee.co.uk>
> Cc: <debian-alpha@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 10:32 PM
> Subject: Re: xserver problem -no screens found
>
>
> > * Simon Tierney (simon@conditional-fee.co.uk) wrote:
> > > I have installed Debian 3 Woody onto a Digital Server 7305, which is a
> story
> > > I'll save for another time.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know, please, why the Xserver crashes with the fatal error
> "no
> > > screens found" when I correctly specified the type of card (S3 Trio)
and
> > > monitor resolutions (taken from the technical specs for the monitor).
> >
> > 'No screens found' is the last error - unfortunatly it is the one which
> > doesn't give much information. Look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log and
> > find the first error - this is likely to give a lot more of a hint about
> > what went wrong.
> >
> > Dave
> > ---------------- Have a happy GNU millennium! ----------------------
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