On Tue, 21 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a newbie on this list. I tried the Newbie list but they > couldn't help :-) > > I just installed Debian Potato on a system with i810e > motherboard; X could not be loaded. I came to know that X > provided with Potato does not support i810e boards. So I > installed XF 4.0.2 binaries, which I got from PCQuest > (computer mag) CD and re-configured X server. When I try to > start X using startx command, I get the following message: > > AddScreen/ScreenInit failed on device 0. > > What should I do now?
There are unofficial .deb for potato at http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/ The X in potato nominally supports i810, but didn't work for me - but those unofficial .deb work (mostly)[1] just fine. You can even set then up in your sources.list - I have it like this: # *unofficial* xfree86-4 potato-packages... deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/ xf403_potato/i386/ deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/ xf403_potato/all/ (yeah, I probably should move to 4.1 - but that'll most likely wait till I upgrade to woody, and what I have now (mostly) works for us). Oh, and as Andrew pointed out, make sure you've got the appropriate AGP module loaded. > Another thing, where can I find good comprehensive > information for configuring and using X? * install packages and look in /usr/share/doc/x*/ * browse http://www.xfree86.org/ , including list archives * for specific questions, try google etc HTH, Neale. [1] I found that running two X servers on one machine was bound to, eventually, crash the video (lots of pretty vertical lines) - but after disabling acceleration that problem hasn't recurred. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
