Re: Dell Optiplex and X not working ('no screens found')
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 07:22 am, Alexander Koch wrote:
> 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.
Are you sure you have an ati or nvidia card most of the stock dell came with
intel graphics chipset and use the i810 driver. If in doubt run "lspci -vv"
to find out what you have. Oh yeah my need to run that as root.
Stephen
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