On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 20:28, Craig Blocker wrote:
> 
>      I sent this last week, but perhaps the reply was sent
> before I got properly registered.
> 
>      I am trying to load Red Hat Linux 7.1.1 on a new Dell
> Inspiron 4150 laptop.  If I start in text mode, everything
> seems fine (except that only the central 20% of my screen
> is used for the text).  When I do a startx command, I
> get a "Fatal server error: no screens found".  In the log
> is also the errors "Failed to detect the panel size" and
> "Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration".
> 
>      The laptop has a ATI Radeon 7500 AGP (LW) video adapter
> with 16Mb of memory.  I don't know what the display actually
> is - Dell specifies it as a 14.1" SXGA+ display.  No matter
> what I try I get the same problem.  Can anyone give me a clue
> as to what to do?

Try a newer XFree86 version, 4.1.0 is pretty old. 4.2.x or 4.2.99.x
should work better.


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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