Re: No Screens Found

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Cecil wrote:

> I am working on an IBM Aptiva and getting the error message that no
> screen is found when I start XFree86.  This machine has a Pentium
> III/800MHz/128MBRAM; Creative Labs CT6970 AGP video card with an
> nVidia GeForce 256 DDR chipset

> This is the second installation of Debian Woody 3.0

You do know that Sarge is now the current version?

> XFree86 is configured for the nv GeForce driver w/32768KB video RAM

I suggest you try using the vesa driver instead of the nv driver.

> I have run xf86config

Unless I'm mistaken, xf86config is a pretty ancient tool; is it still a
valid tool? Doesn't it only produce an XF86Config file, whereas Woody's
version of X expects the file to be named XF86Config-4?

-- 
Kent