Re: Debian Install Problem...
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
>
>> Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:
>>
>>> when I type "startx" I get an
>>> error message that says "no screens found."
>>
>> Try running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" and selecting
>> different settings, such as SVGA or a lower resolution or a lower
>> color depth.
>
>
> Thanks, I have tried this with a few different settings to no avail.
If you've modified "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" by hand, the above command
doesn't modify the file, even though there's no warning that it's not
modifying the file.
> I have two monitors, both 17" LCD 1280 * 1024 plugged into a NVidia
> 6200 (I think that is the model #) graphics card. In Windows, I have
> one big desktop across two screens. When I am running Debian at the
> command line, the two monitors show exactly the same thing. When I run
> startx, I get the attached error. Any thoughts?
>
>(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
>(EE) No devices detected.
>
>
Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for a "Device" section; does it have a
"BusID" line? If so, it needs to say:
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
to match the Primary Device found as reported by your log file.
However, since you have two monitors with "two" graphics adapters, you
should have a "Device" section for each adapter, and each of those
sections should have an appropriate BusID section. "lspci" should list
the PCI device numbers, but they'll be in hex, and will need to be
converted to decimal for XF86Config-4. (And you thought Debian was
going to be easy.) Here's an article I wrote a couple of years ago that
might be of some benefit:
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/10/05/025207&tid=13&tid=39&tid=23&tid=99
The "Xinerama" option will need to be enabled (see tail-end of above
article for example) in order to get your dual-head working as it does
in Windows (sort of).
--
Kent
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