Re: Debian on an iBook
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:28:10 +0100, James Dunn wrote:
> I can't find all the characters to type this command!
>
> egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/XFree86.0.log
>
> I guessing my keyboard is not configured properly either - the
> characters I can't find are ^ and ' although there is a similar
> apostrophe.
Don't worry about that now. You can use normal quotes and the ^ character
is not important, it just suppresses the output of one unnecessary line.
For what we need to know the following is fully equivalent:
egrep "\((EE|WW)\)" /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> Here's is the contents of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 :
> # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System server configuration file)
[...]
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "ATI Radeon Mobility 7500"
> Driver "ati"
> BusID "PCI:0:10:0"
This is now identical to what your X server reports as the primary
device in that snippet from /var/log/XFree86.0.log which you posted in
your earlier mail. Therefore I would expect that you now get a different
error message. (Unless there is a mix-up between decimal and hexadecimal
numbers. I now realized that my graphics cards always had device numbers
for which this would not have mattered, therefore I never thought about
it before.)
> VideoRam 32768
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Generic Monitor"
> HorizSync 28-33
> VertRefresh 43-72
> Option "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Device "ATI Radeon Mobility 7500"
> Monitor "Generic Monitor"
> DefaultDepth 24
[...]
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Default Layout"
> Screen "Default Screen"
> InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
> InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
> InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
> EndSection
>
> Section "DRI"
> Mode 0666
> EndSection
Nothing out of the ordinary, as far as I can see. Check your log file
again. If you cannot get the modified egrep command to work, you can
manually copy "(EE)" and "(WW)" lines from XFree86.0.log which look like
they might be relevant.
One more thing: If you always insert your reply above the quoted
message, it will quickly become impossible for others to follow the
discussion. Therefore this practice of "top-posting" is very much
disliked on this list. Please insert you answers and comments into the
quoted text at the appropriate place to generate a coherent "story".
More information on this topic is available here:
http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 14:21:16 +0100, James Dunn wrote:
> >
> >>I've tried reconfiguring xserver as described below, but no luck. I
> >>looked at lspci, and it says:
> >>
> >>0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon
> >>Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> >>Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility
> >>7500]
> >>Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 48
> >>Memory at 98000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
> >>I/O ports at 802400 [size=256]
> >>Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> >>Expansion ROM at 90020000 [disabled] [size=128K]
> >>Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
> >>Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> >>
> >>when I type startx, it says:
> >>
> >>(EE) No devices detected.
> >>Fatal server error:
> >>no screens found
> >>
> >>X10: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
> >>after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining
> >>
> >>I looked at var/log/XFree86.0.log and at the end of the file it says:
> >>
> >>(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:10:0
> >>(II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 M7 LW".
> >>(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:16:9)
> >>found
> >>(EE) No devices detected.
> >>
> >>Fatal server error:
> >>no screens found
> >>
> >
> >Something is really misconfigured. The quickest way to solve this is
> >probably for you to post your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, so that we can get
> >a better idea of what is going on. Also, run the command
> >
> >egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> >
> >and include its output, so that we can see all error messages and
> >warnings of your X server.
> >
> >
--
Regards,
Florian
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