Re: I am stuck: X on a Compaq Armada M300 (ATI Rage Lt Pro)

[HdV@DTO.TUDelft.NL]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Heather wrote:

> > I've upgraded to woody on my armada E500 but installed it as potato. X ran
> > fine on it. It has the same graphic cards so it must work on your system too

I would think so too, but alas it didn't. Nevermind I have it running now,
after building the config file by hand, using the chipset recommended by
xf86cfg. So I am a happy camper now `;-)

> "no screens found" means...
> 	when initialization was done and the first X client was about to
> 	launch, there's no display available to talk to.
>
> It *usually* means all your modelines were out of spec (even the "default"
> ones that X makes up for VESA compliance) or some other illegal combination
> led to no screens being safe to use.

Aha, that could explain it. There were modelines in the original config
file. After reading the manpage I saw that in XFree86 4 it will use
standard VESA settings if you don't specify modes yourself. That's just
what I did (hence the remark about polishing the config in my previous
message) and that gave me at least some useable result. From there on it
was a bit of an iteration process.

> 'Twas said there were a lot of (II) messages.  Some of them may have been
> details about the monitor?  Deletion of bad modes should be (WW) messages.
> But autodetected capabilities would be (II) ...
>
> A glance at the attached config (to the message ahead of this one) doesn't
> look out of the ordinary, but I don't have access to that model.  So now
> I'm curious about the actual messages.

I probably have the XFree86.0.log, but am not near that machine right now.
If I don't forget and your still interested I'll post it when I get my laptop
back again. At the moment I lend it to a friend of mine.

Thanks for taking the time to try and explain all this stuff to me.

Grx HdV

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J.A. de Vries aka HdV
Delft University of Technology
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