> Folks,
>
> I've recently installed debian on my PC and can't get the X server
> working. I've run the XF86Setup app and it completed sucessfully, telling
> me I had established a properly working server, but when I quit, saving
> the config to XF86Config, and run startx, I get the following:
>
> (a long list of messages which scroll up the screen, followed by...)
>
> *** none of the configured devices were detected *** Fatal server
> error: no screens found - X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect:
> errno = 111 giving up.
>
> xinit: connection refused (errno 111) unable to connect to xserver
> xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error
I had the same problem.
> If I su to root and run xdm, my display starts flashing, rendering all
> subsequent operation useless. The only way out at this point is
> Ctl-Alt-Del.
That one too! Then I noticed that just ABOVE the text like you describe
above (*** none of the configured devices were detected ***) there was a
message telling me I needed to use the X server for "S3V", instead of the one
for "S3" that I had configured... After installing the S3V X server from
the CD (which I can still only access by booting from floppy, but that's
another story) and changing the appropriate config files to use it, suddenly
I had X working. So it could be that you've used XF86Setup to configure a
card/chipset that is SLIGHTLY different than what you actually have in your
machine. Check it out.
What I don't really understand is why XF86Setup was able to function just
fine with the S3 setup, but the actual S3 X server package failed... But I'm
just trying not to think about it too much.
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