Re: No Screens found

[Donald Spoon <dspoon@astcomm.net>]

Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> Op vr 19-09-2003, om 12:18 schreef Uwe Dippel:
>
> > Sorry, I cannot post to the news-group online. Yes, I did register and
> > get everything into my mailbox.
> >
> > Before I send the long stuff, in the meantime I tried all suggestions
> >
> > (> dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low --frontend=dialog xserver-xfree86
> > done. No success ...)
> >
> > (> Try defining vert and horyz refresh for your monitor in the
> > XF86Config-4 > config file. Then define modes like "1024x768", etc and
> > defaultdepth
> > done. no success ....)
> >
> > Curious, I stuck in a RIVA TNT/2, which worked.
> > I tried the r128-driver, also no success.
> > I even upgraded to unstable, everything okay, except of X.
> >
> > Don't tell me that card is gone: It works nicely from that exactly same
> > hardware, only another partition (RedHat). From which I am writing here.
> > Thanks to grub.
> >
> >
> > Here come all the details: (here for ati instead of r128, but all the
> > same result)
> >
> > # cat /mnt/ndata/log/XFree86.0.log | grep EE
> >         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> > (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
> > (EE) No devices detected.
> >
> > # cat /mnt/ndata/log/XFree86.0.log | grep WW
> >         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> > (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" does not exist.
> > (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" does not exist.
> > (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
> > (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" does not exist.
> > (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" does not exist.
> > (WW) Cannot open APM
> > [root@psyche udippel]#
> -SNIP- <

The above lines marked (WW) remind me of a similar error message I used 
to get when I was missing some key fonts packages.  I would get a "No 
Screens Found" error and X wouldn't start.  This used to be a packaging 
problem back in the pre-Woody days, but I haven't heard of it 
recently... until now.  Maybe you are missing a font package or have not 
completely installed it...  I am even more suspicious of something like 
this happening since you are having problems with two different cards. 
Worth a check....

I have the following fonts packages installed here:

xfonts-base
xfonts-100dpi
xfonts-75dpi
xfonts-scalable

HTH,

-Don Spoon-