On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Heather wrote: > > I've upgraded to woody on my armada E500 but installed it as potato. X ran > > fine on it. It has the same graphic cards so it must work on your system too
I would think so too, but alas it didn't. Nevermind I have it running now, after building the config file by hand, using the chipset recommended by xf86cfg. So I am a happy camper now `;-) > "no screens found" means... > when initialization was done and the first X client was about to > launch, there's no display available to talk to. > > It *usually* means all your modelines were out of spec (even the "default" > ones that X makes up for VESA compliance) or some other illegal combination > led to no screens being safe to use. Aha, that could explain it. There were modelines in the original config file. After reading the manpage I saw that in XFree86 4 it will use standard VESA settings if you don't specify modes yourself. That's just what I did (hence the remark about polishing the config in my previous message) and that gave me at least some useable result. From there on it was a bit of an iteration process. > 'Twas said there were a lot of (II) messages. Some of them may have been > details about the monitor? Deletion of bad modes should be (WW) messages. > But autodetected capabilities would be (II) ... > > A glance at the attached config (to the message ahead of this one) doesn't > look out of the ordinary, but I don't have access to that model. So now > I'm curious about the actual messages. I probably have the XFree86.0.log, but am not near that machine right now. If I don't forget and your still interested I'll post it when I get my laptop back again. At the moment I lend it to a friend of mine. Thanks for taking the time to try and explain all this stuff to me. Grx HdV -- Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have. J.A. de Vries aka HdV Delft University of Technology Computing Centre Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
