drakx11 resolved the issue. I didn't realize that mandriva did not set up the display properly. Thanks for the tip!
On 12/23/06, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Saturday 23 December 2006 18:16, Douglas Ward wrote: > I am hoping for a Christmas miracle... :) > > I installed Mandriva 2007 (fully updated through urpmi) on my Dell Latitude > D620 laptop. X will not start! It returns the following error: > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > X10: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0: > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > > I have been working on this today and cannot seem to make sense of it. In > my desperation I have uploaded the following files for your reading > pleasure: > > http://www.trilug.org/~douglas/xorg.conf > http://www.trilug.org/~douglas/Xorg.0.log > > If anyone can offer any assistance it would certainly be most appreciated. > I can run the laptop fine in command line mode but would love to use the > gui. FYI: kubuntu and ubuntu both install and run properly with no > problems. This seems to be a Mandriva specific problem. Thanks! Merry > Christmas! I haven't looked at your xorg.conf/0.log in detail because such things make me go blind but I have some suggestions. First, from the command prompt, try running rerunning drakx11, try a few different things, and see if any work. Also, get the specifications of your monitor, and when you configure your monitor, configure it "custom" and plug in those specifications. drakx11/XFdrake go way too conservative when they plug and play probe the monitor. If you can't get it working with drakx11/XFdrake, back up your current xorg.conf, boot a livecd version of Ubuntu or Knoppix, copy the xorg.confto Mandrake's /etc, reboot, and probably it will work. You can then exploit the differences between the two xorg.conf files to come up with the best for your machine while running Mandriva. I regularly boot Knoppix in order to get a valid xorg.conf for my Mandrake/Mandriva machines, and have been doing so for years. Sometimes I just run the Knoppix xorg.conf, and sometimes I need to tweak it for best performance, but for years I've been doing it and it usually works just fine. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
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