Re: 'no screens found' -- how & why?
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:24:41PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> [sorry Ian, couldn't seem to write back to you directly, and anyway
> seemed relevant to the whole list]
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:07:27PM +0100, Ian wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Matt Price wrote:
> >
> > > (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a
> > > (II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
> > > (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
> > > (II) UnloadModule: "r128"
> > > (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o
> > > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > no screens found
> >
> > Have you moved your system over to udev. When I did this, I found that I
> > had to add new udev rules to create the relevant nodes for my nvidia card
> >
> hey, this might be the problem -- I did apt-get udev at some point in
> the evening last night! (though haven't fiddled with it yet). Do you
> happen to have the relevant rules handy -- I haven't looked into udev
> yet, really, so I could use a guide.
>
> Isn't udev supposed to be for hotplug stuff? Why does it apply to PCI
> cards?
for the record, uninstalling udev returned my system to usability. I
don't have prssing need for it right now so 'm putting that task off
for now!
thx,
matt
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