Hi all
Last week I was asking if anyone had a graphics card I could use as mine failed. After a reboot I kept getting a "(EE) No devices detected." when starting X.
Stephen Grady has kindly sent me a card and so I have a known good card to work with.
I am still getting exactly the same error !
This suggests that my Matro card may not be the problem - maybe its my motherboard.
Does anyone have suggestions on what I shoudl now try?
Information:
XFree86.0.log says ...... (II) MGA: driver for Matrox chipsets: mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag100, mgag100 PCI, mgag200, mgag200 PCI, mgag400, mgag550 (II) Primary Device is: ISA (EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error: no screens found
I have configured XF86Config-4 using dpkg-reconfigure.
lspci says 0000:00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2064W [Millennium] (rev 01)
/proc/pci says
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 5, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Matrox Millennium (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 18. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x9000000 [0x9000000].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x9800000 [0x9800000].
So according to the above I have a video device detected at boot time.
The XF86Config-4 file has:
Section "Device" Identifier "Matrox Millenium" Driver "mga" BusID "PCI:0:5:0" EndSection
I DO get a screen of vga text i.e. a console and I can login fine but just cant 'startx'
Googling for this error indicates that this occurs if X cannot determine what video card one is running. This should not be a problem as it used to work and Matrox cards are supported by the mga driver.
Is there another way to get more info on what the problem might be?
Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
