Never mind. I'm an idiot! After re-re-re-reading the installation notes at http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=163323 I saw the part about copying the config file to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
All better now. Thanks to all who helped. Jim -----Original Message----- From: Eiler, James A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:36 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [XFree86] Fatal server error: no screens found More data. I've done the XFree86 -configure and have a file called XF86Config.new (contents below). On my QNX box, XF86Config.new resides in my /root directory. After running XFree86 -configure, it tells me to test the configuration by running: XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new I do, and I get an X-windows session (I think) but no icons to click. Just the mouse pointer to move around.... If I try "startx", I get the error I wrote about initially - no screens found. Any more help out there? Thanks, Jim Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/opt/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/opt/X11R6/lib/modules" FontPath "/opt/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/opt/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/opt/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/opt/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/opt/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/opt/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "dbe" Load "record" Load "xtrap" Load "speedo" Load "type1" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "OSMouse" Option "Device" "/dev/devi/mouse0" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor Model" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>] #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] #Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>] #Option "Rotate" # [<str>] #Option "VideoKey" # <i> #Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card0" Driver "nv" VendorName "NVidia" BoardName "Riva TNT2 M64" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection -----Original Message----- From: Peter Finderup Lund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 2:37 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [XFree86] Fatal server error: no screens found On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Eiler, James A. wrote: > (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Mon Jan 13 16:49:56 2003 > (EE) Unable to locate/open config file Dead giveaway ;) [mharris: perhaps this is another of those cases where the X server can try to fix a few things and -- if they work -- give a good diagnostics message or -- if they don't -- at least tell us where it tried to look for the file? The pie in the sky goal would of course be to make it work /without/ a configuration file unless the hardware was really strange...] Ok, you have no configuration file. Do you have a sample file you can modify? Have you read http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/XF86Config.5.html ? (should be the same as man 5 XF86Config but one never knows) What hardware do you have? You can also try: XFree86 -configure which should generate a configuration file for you (which might work straight away or might need some further hand tuning). -Peter _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
