When on Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Mircea Luca wrote, I replied:
Thanks for the tip. I finally found on irc that I could run
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-???? something or other. I ran that
and chose ati rather than vga et voila!
> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 14:37:37 -0800
> From: Mircea Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLU] woody kde dead
>
> Ralph Winslow wrote:
> >
> > When on Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Carl B. Constantine wrote, I replied:
> >
> > Thanks for the reply, Carl. I tried that and got:
> >
> > startx: OpenWindows is not installed correctly in /usr/openwin.
> > Set the environment variable $OPENWINHOME to the directory
> > where OpenWindows is installed.
> >
> > and xinit still shows:
> >
>
> <SNIP>
> > (II) VGA: Generic VGA driver (version 4.0) for chipsets: generic
> > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
> > (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
> > (--) Chipset generic found
>
> <SNIP>
> > (II) Setting vga for screen 0.
> > (EE) VGA(0): Driver can't support depth 24
> > (II) UnloadModule: "vga"
> > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > no screens found
> >
> > When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> > the full server output, not just the last messages.
> > This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
> > Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
> Looking at this you also have a problem with X .What happened is that X
> in woody is X4 and is simply not configured.You're trying to run generic
> in 24bit depth which won't work.You have to configure X first.
> There was a thread here last week about X4 in Debian.See waht you can
> dig from the mailinglist archives.
>
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