Incoming from Charles Muller: > > I'm a Debian newbie, trying to install Debian on my laptop, a Clevo D400 > (on which Mandrake 9 and RH 9 ran OK). On the first boot after installation, > I am getting hung just before starting the X server: > > "I cannot start your X server...it is likely that it is not set up > correctly..." > > I installed from CDs burnt from the ISOs for 30r. The rest of the > installation (Vanilla) seemed to go OK. In the error report, the line > listed as "error" (EE) plus the line above are: > > (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device > (EE) No devices detected. > > Fatal server error: no screens found > > I am asked to run the configuration program, and I say yes, but with no > apparent effect.
Uhh, what? You say yes, and it blinks and goes back to where it was? Or, you say yes, it goes through the X Window configuration, and that has no effect? >From a root login, try "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xservername", where "xservername" is your video system specific X server (svga? nvidia? ...). If none of that helps, tell us what you've got. I've no idea what a "Clevo D400" is. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - -
