As root, type this at a command prompt lspci
Look for a line that says "VGA Video Controller: SOMETHING" and let us know what it is. Some of my machines here report stuff like: 0000:00:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems TGUI 9440 (rev e3) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] (rev b2) 0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) 00:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX (rev 01) -----Original Message----- From: Leif Keane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 12 August 2004 9:38 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: video driver problems Hi I'm very new to Linux and recently spent ten weeks installing Debian on a laptop. Always wanting to learn, I thought I'd give it another try, this time on an unknown PC (celeron 600?). Everything went fine till it came to telling the install about the video card, at which point I crossed my eyes and pressed something that looked like it might be good. As a mac user I have many years of experience clicking on things that look like they might be good... As you will no doubt have guessed, the graphic user interface doesn't work and reports on boot up, "I can not start the X Server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly". It goes on to give me a long error report, trys again to make things work and then gives up, putting me to the command line. I looked inside the box, but I'm none the wiser, other than the Mother Board is made by ASUS. The video is all built in. Problem 1: anyone got any idea what driver I might work with an ASUS board? Problem 2: how do I install it? If the answer is "start from scratch and reinstall the whole lot" then so be it and I'll do it gladly, but if there is a more elegant way, I'd love to know about it. I tried running "base-config" (/usr/sbin/base-config) but that ran through a whole heap of errors and asked if I wanted to set-up my EMail. When I said "no" it displayed debconf: DbDriver "configdb" error: /var/cache/dbconf/config.dat is locked by another process base-config: 80poff exited with return code 1 debconf: DbDriver "configdb" error: /var/cache/dbconf/config.dat is locked by another process base-config: 90final-message exited with return code 1 and went back to the command line. any ideas? Thanks Leif -- -------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent using Telecom SchoolZone. www.schoolzone.net.nz This email has been scanned for viruses by Telecom SchoolZone, but is not guaranteed to be virus-free. --------------------------------------------------------------
