Re: Problem on first boot
Well, after just reinstalling etch it seems as though just changing ati to vesa got it to start X. Is there an easy way to get fglrx working? Cause I can definitely tell a performance lag with the vesa drivers. I did a search for a deb in google and this came up,
http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fglrx-driver.html . Do you think it would be fine to install it in etch even though its for sid?
Kent West wrote:
> Eric O wrote:
> > After installing debian etch, the first boot doesn't start up X11. It
> > comes up with an error saying there are no screens. I have an ATi
> > X1600 Pro which does work in Ubuntu and other distros. I would like to
> > use debian over ubuntu, but as of right now I have no choice. I was
> > playing around with debian before I installed it on VMware and I had
> > not a problem. I know that ubuntu uses the vesa driver and not the ati
> > driver that debian puts in xorg.conf, could that make any difference?
>
> Using the vesa driver should get you going. As long as you haven't
> manually edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf, you can change this by running
> "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg".
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