The problem is not your ATI card.
I am using an Expert2000 (Rage 128 chipset) on my Linux system and have no
problem with X.
Have you verified that nothing else is sharing the IRQ with your card.
Charles (-:
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Patrick Millerd
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 1:49 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Xserver will not start
>
>
> Daniel,
>
> Thanks for your advice. I followed your suggestions and it's
> still not
> working. :-( I have no idea what the problem is. I hate to
> have to get a
> different video card when my ATI card is relatively common,
> not to mention
> quasi-pricey. lol But I don't know what else to do except
> revert to a
> Microshaft product. *sigh* Thanks again, and if anyone else has
> encountered this problem before and managed to solve it, I would be
> extremely grateful for more options to try. Thanks!
>
> Patrick
>
>
> >> Everytime I install Linux Mandrake 7.2 on a computer with
> an ATI card the X
> >> server will not start. It outputs a lot of stuff and
> finally crashes
> >> stating:
> >>
> >> FATAL SERVER ERROR
> >> no screen(s) found
> >>
> >> I do not know what to do, or how to proceed. I have
> emailed the support
> >> persons at Mandrake and they basically told me to run the
> XF86 setup
> >> again... which I did... numerous times, trying the most
> conservative video
> >> settings there are... and nothing has worked.
> >
> > Hey there.... Try /usr/X11R6/bin/Xconfigurator
> > from the commandline. At the first screen you will given
> the option of
> > different monitor resoutions, ( I chose non_interlaced
> Generic SVGA 1024x768
> > at 60 mhz ) then it will ask to test it, at the next screen
> choose NO, (
> > unless of course it looks, ok..<g> ) after you say no,
> there will be a
> > section about graphics card, select change graphic cards.
> there will be a
> > lont list, right in the middle will be something called "other",
> > try "other" and you will be presented with an option for
> serveral different
> > "X-servers", see if there is one for ATI, I believe there
> is one ( Mach 64
> > ?_. If that doesn't work, try XF86SVGA , that might do the
> trick as well.
> > Sometimes you have to make sure that the correct amount of memory is
> > allocated for your card, make sure that is accurate. Good Luck!
> >
> >
> > Daniel in NJ...:)
> >
>
>
>
