Re: Further XF86 trouble: startx -> no screens found

[Mike S <michael_six@users.sourceforge.net>]

Nathan Thrower wrote:

> 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:
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> > Mike S wrote:
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> >    
> >
> > > 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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I am glad that this solution worked, as that gives me a good possibility 
that it would work for me too.  But which Solution?  Copying the screen 
settings from xorg.conf, or using the whole xorg.conf and renaming it?



--Mike S