Re: Problem with X
--- Glenn Howell Evans <gevans1@utk.edu> wrote: >
Heya, so here are my default ball park guesses about
> your problem.
>
> A) Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and see if the
> driver for your video
> card is nvidia
The driver that I selected during installation was
"nv" which I hope is the same as nvidia.
> B) Did you compile the nvidia drivers yourself or
> did you use the kernel
> driver? If you didnt do either i would hope on
> nvidia's website and grab
> the kernel driver and the GLX driver off of their
> site.
I think I used the kernel drivers. I tried to install
GLX driver for nvidia with dpkg but I got three
dependency errors. I can send out the complete log
file of XFConfig, but it is a bit lengthy.
Still I need help.
>
> cheers
> -Howell
>
> On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 03:47, Hooman wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> > I have installed Debian Linux on my machine at
> home
> > and I have problems starting X-window system on
> it.
> > Consequently, no desktop manager will run. The
> machine
> > is a Pentium-III 800MHz with 512 MB of RAM.
> >
> > I have a NVidia RIVA TNT2 graphics card and an
> > OPTIQUEST V775 monitor. When I boot-up the machine
> I
> > get a message which says:
> > "Screen(s) found, but none have a usable
> > configuration"
> >
> > I really need help to solve this problem, I tried
> > myself for hours, but without any result :(
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> >
> > =====
> > Hooman
> > A newbie in Linux world
> >
> >
>
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