I managed to solve the prob, I selected a new monitor from the list of monitors during installation, and everything worked fine.
Thanks anyway :) Keith On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 21:07, Mario Debono wrote: > Are you sure xserver was installed? Try logging in as root and running > XFdrake and you should get the setup tool for xserver. > > Also I read about Mandrake and problems with NVIDIA but I don't know > exactly what they are. > > > Good luck. > > Mario > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > I think this is a tough one. > > > > This morning I formatted my hard disk and installed Mandrake 9.2 (I was > > previously running 9.1). The installation went fine, but X is not starting > > on boot. When I type 'startx' the screen flashes several times, then I get > > the following error: > > > > START------ > > > > Using vt7 > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): No modes remaining for display device CRT-0 > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** > > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration > > > > Fatal server error: > > no screens found > > > > When reporting server errors, please send the ful..... bla bla bla... > > > > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" > > after 0 requests (0 kinown processed) with 0 events remaining > > > > END-------- > > > > I formated my hard disk again and tried to install Mandrake 9.1, and it too > > gave the same problem! I then formatted again and installed Fedora Core 1 - > > it worked fine. Of course, I don't want Fedora, I want Mandrake. > > > > I suspect maybe I'm specifying the wrong monitor model during installation? > > Fedora doesn't ask for it, but Mandrake doesn't detect the correct one. I > > have a MAG 996PF2 (19") on an nvidia GeForce 2. Of course, Mandrake does > > have a list of MAG monitors to choose from, but as usual with my hardware, > > mine isn't listed. I don't think it should be a problem - this monitor was > > working perfectly under 9.1 before I formatted. > > > > Can anyone help me? > > > > Keith > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MLUG-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >
