Re: no screens found

[Hans-Georg Bork <hgb@hgbhome.net>]

Hi David,

here some ideas to it:

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:28:27PM -0500, David Arenas wrote:
> hi,
> 
> in file  /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> 
> This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any
            ^^^^^^^^^^                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
this might tell a bit already ...

> [...]
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
> Parse error on line 124 of section DRI in file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> 	":p!" is not a valid keyword in this section.
> (EE) Problem parsing the config file
> (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile()

did you fix this error already? "no screens" could be caused by that.

> (EE) Problem parsing the config file
> (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile()
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> 
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages.
> This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
> Please report problems to submit@bugs.debian.org.

After fixing the error above (and all others which might follow), report
the problem as described above; you could also ask here, but it might be
useful to let the xf86-programmers know it as well.

Regards
	-- hgb