Re: Start Xserver problem (Solved)

[Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk>]

Hi David, Doug, and folks,

Thanks for your advice.

Problem solved
#cat /etc/X11/XF86config-4
.....
Monitor "AcerView 34T"
VideoRam "32768"
driver  "nv"
.....

xserver now starts running on 1024x768/800x600 resolution with colour
depth=24(32)bits.  KDE-3.1.1 is now displayed.

The only mistakes I made previously was entering "AcerView 34T uvga" and
"VideoRam 32".  Debian did not recognize it.  Monitor entry must be
"AcerView 34T"

GNOME still could not start.  Anyway I will make another clean
net-installation again after solving the problem re 'cut-off' from
Internet (ISP connected).  Thereafter I will download the driver from
ftp to download.nvidia.com

Thanks again and Merry X'Mas

B.R.
Stephen






On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 01:16, David Z Maze wrote:
> Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk> writes:
> 
> > I just finished another clean installation of Debian 3.0 with
> > net-installer (Sarge) and encountered starting xserver problem
> >
> > Vedio card - WinFast GeForce2 MX
> > RAM - 32MB
> > driver chosen - nv
> ...
> > (--) Chipset GeForce2 MX/MX 400 found
> > (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (insufficient memory for
> > mode)
> > (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (insufficient memory for
> > mode)
> > (WW) NV(0): Mode pool is empty
> > (EE) NV(0): No valid modes found
> 
> What I take from this: you're using the right driver for your card
> ("GeForce2 MX" does sound like an NVidia card, and 'nv' would be the
> right driver), and the X server finds your card, but doesn't realize
> there's memory available.  (1024x768x32bpp would require exactly 3 MB
> of memory, which you should easily be able to handle.)  If you look in
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log, does it list the amount of memory that's being
> detected?  If it's detecting wrong, you might need to add 'VideoRam
> 32768' in the "Device" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; you also
> might be able to specify video memory manually in 'dpkg-reconfigure
> xserver-xfree86'.  (And if it asked you "how much memory" and you
> answered "32", that would cause this, though that's just speculation.)
> 
> -- 
> David Maze         dmaze@debian.org      http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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> 	-- Abra Mitchell
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