Re: "No screens found"

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Kent West wrote:

> Alex Gulla wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi my name is Alex and I'm trying to setup Debian 3.1.  I  have it all
> > setup and i have kde and kdm installed and i cant seem to get them
> > working.  whenever i enter "kdm" into the prompt, the screen goes
> > completely black, then it just goes back to the prompt and nothing has
> > changed.  When i type "startx" in the prompt, it goes through a whole
> > bunch of what looks to be starting up X but then all i see is "Error:
> > NO SCREENS FOUND".  I'm trying to install Debian on a Dell Optiplex
> > GX400.  My video card is an ATI Rage and im positivbe my monitor is
> > hooked up correctly because i can see text in the prompt.  Any help
> > would be much appreciated.
> >    
> If your ATI Rage is integrated rather than a separate card, I'd suspect
> the Video RAM setting in the Dell's BIOS.
>
>  
You could try the vesa driver which runs a wide range of cards, I believe.

# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

I had a similar problem with an nvidia card. It ran OK with the vesa 
driver. I finally got got the nvidia driver working by adding some 
configuration options to the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. I found the 
configuration information via nvidia's website. You might find something 
similar on ATI's website or forums.

Hth,
Chris.