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Re: Dell Optiplex and X not working ('no screens found')



On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:52:17AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Alexander Koch wrote:
> >hopefully someone can help. I have a nice Dell box here
> >with an unidentified graphics card (ATI, but no idea what
> >else). It is the Dell Optiplex GX 280, and when saying I
> >want the 'ati' driver for X11 it just bombs out with the
> >message 'no screens found' and nothing else. The XF86Config
> >is identical to my old version on some box with nv drivers,
> >and I tried everything - from changing the 'Driver' from
> >'nv' to 'ati' up to redoing dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
> >from scratch, etc.
I use the 'vesa' driver just fine on a standard 280 running sarge.

my lspci output is:

0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82915G Express
Chipset Family Graphics Controller (rev 04)

-- asg



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