Re: Further XF86 trouble: startx -> no screens found
Mike S, your solution worked! I've successfully loaded XF86 with my
ATI Rage Mobility 128 AGP, and I'm running Debian/sarge with KDE
3.3.2. Thanks a lot! Now I just have to wipe my harddrive and
install only Debian (as Ubuntu takes up a huge partition, but is now
useless). Thanks!!
On 5/25/05, Mike S <michael_six@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Mike S wrote:
>
> > Mauro wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 05:39 +0000, Nathan Thrower wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Would I be able to run Xorg instead of XF86 with Debian Sarge? I can
> >>> use Ubuntu fine, and I know that runs Xorg. When using "apt-get
> >>> install x-window-system", could I concievably use "apt-get install
> >>> xorg" or something instead? If so, this could work.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Sure, you'd have to find out how to update your sources.list with the
> >> right repository. You might as well just install ubuntu for that matter
> >> and avoid possible breakages.
> >>
> >> As for working with what you got, you sure you have the sync rates
> >> correct? The driver?
> >>
> >> Lastly, run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 a few times with different
> >> settings and try to run X.
> >> If you only have one video card, don't specify it in XF86.config-4
> >>
> >> Other than that I'm out of ideas. Is this a pegasos? I don't know
> >> anything about this subset arch.
> >>
> >> Night
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > this is something I would conceivably want to do when I go back to
> > Debian, so please let me know how it works. And I would think that if
> > you installed Hoary from cdrom that you could mv your
> > etc/apt/sources.list aside, create a new blank one and then use
> > apt-cdrom, that's what I would try.
> >
> > --Mike S
> >
> >
> I don't know why I didn't think of this before, as it was suggested to
> me personally just a few months ago. If you have a livecd that you can
> boot and get an xorg session in, do that, then copy the
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf to your hard drive. Reboot into debian, and use the
> screen settings from that in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file or whatever
> it's named. Me peprsonally when I take the plunge back to Debian, I am
> just going to try and use the whole thing first (renaming xorg.conf
> appropriately), and then go from there.
>
> --Mike S
>
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