Re: X Windom System will not start
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent West" <westk@acu.edu>
To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 19:40
Subject: Re: X Windom System will not start
> Hoyt Bailey wrote:
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Kent West" <westk@acu.edu>
> >To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> >Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 15:41
> >Subject: Re: X Windom System will not start
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>File: XFree86.0.log
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >><huge snip>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Fatal server error:
> >>>
> >>>no screens found
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>You need to experiment with your resolution, color depth, and/or video
> >>driver. Use "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" to do so.
> >>
> >>--
> >>Kent
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Would I be safe assuming : Since the system has regulary been used with
> >Windows XP @ 1280x1024 with a color depth of 32 (true color). That it
will
> >pass the resolution & color depth test and that this leaves the video
> >driver?
> >Hoyt
> >
>
> I'm not entirely sure what you're saying, but no, just because a certain
> res/depth combo works in XP doesn't mean it'll work in X, because the
> video drivers are different. Typically the manufacturers of video
> hardware write the driver for Windows, but force the Linux developers to
> reverse-engineer/guess the hardware specs, resulting in different
> performance characteristics.
>
> Nowadays, typically the worse thing that happens to a Linux setup with
> faulty X settings is the machine will lock up, forcing a power-reset
> (used to be you could smoke the monitor, and with older monitors you
> still can). So don't be too afraid to experiment. If the machine does
> lock up, try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill X, or Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to the
> second virtual terminal, or ssh in from another box. If none of those
> methods allow you to regain control of your machine, hit the power
> button and hope for not too much file system damage (converting to ext3
> from ext2 helps quite a bit here - it's a rather trivial conversion).
>
> "lspci" might give you a clue as to which video chipset you have (or
> look in WindowsXP), and then you might have to guess/Google for which
> driver to use for that chipset.
>
> --
> Kent
>
Sounds like a plan. I'll try and I believe that ext3 is already installed.
Hoyt
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