Xorg: screens found but not usable:no screens found[SOLVED]

Black Zer0 · Last edited by Black Zer0 on Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:58 pm; edited 2 times in total

I'm having troubles with xorg, it keeps saying "no screen found" and the message "found screens but they are unusable"
Someone told me that they used apt-reconfigure to solve this problem and that I should find a portage equivilent for it, does anyone know about one?
And does anyone know HOW apt-reconfigure would help with xorg.

IQgryn · l33t Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 764 Location: WI, USA

If you post your xorg.conf and the log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log), we can probably point out the problem.

alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

the "apt" family of commands is what the debian project uses as there software packet manager.
the gentoo equivalent would be portage with the emerge command, but that will not help you here.
what you need to do is configure your /etc/X11/xorg.conf manually and make sure that the right drivers for your setup are available and that the parameters in the kernel are set correctly.

Black Zer0 · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:47 am Post subject:

IQgryn · l33t Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 764 Location: WI, USA

Well, any lines with errors might be enough, but it'd be best if you just posted the entire log to http://pastebin.ca/ or a similar site, and linked to it here.

Black Zer0 · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:16 am Post subject:

Xorg.0.log

IQgryn · l33t Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 764 Location: WI, USA

Ok, one more thing: can you post the output of

Black Zer0 · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:00 pm Post subject:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject:

Black Zer0,

Fixing your Xorg is a two step process. First we make it work with the vesa driver, so change the line

Black Zer0 · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:45 am Post subject:

Yeah I tried i710 as well one time, it didnt work either.

uhoh:
livecd gentoo # emerge xf86-video-vesa
Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "xf86-video-vesa".

EDIT: oops I just wasnt in chroot thats all :oops:

So if i810 isnt starting then I would get the no screens error right?

I managed to find the "enable vm_86" option and enabled it and agpgart is permenently enabled but where is DRM I already "gentoo-wiki"ed it with no results.

This time the result os startx was a black screen with some "static" at the bottom (about an inch from the bottom) then it went black and didnt exit and I had to reboot.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:08 am Post subject:

Black Zer0,

DRM is in character devices, just under agpgart. It probably called Direct Rendering, or something like that.
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Black Zer0 · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 2:55 pm Post subject:

I didn't actualy have to have it enabled(either that or it is enabled already) startx brings me into fluxbox (as planned[I LOVE fluxbox]) however my usb mouse doesnt' work this time(logitech) it did work with my PS/2 mouse (which sucks and I would rather die than use it) works. I enabled Device Drivers>Input Devices>Mouses>Logitech busmouse, tried as a module then loading logibm on startup and building into the kernel and neither worked.

[sort of off topic]I've been having a lot more errors with i686(currently running) than i386(ran before) however I (and you smart forums people) have managed to solve all these problems. Does this mean my computer is incompatible with i686(highly doubt it)

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:15 pm Post subject:

Black Zer0,

Under USB, you need HID Support. Your mouse will be at /dev/input/mice

If your mouse has lots of buttons, yo umay want to try the event interface.
That needs input event support in the kernel.
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Black Zer0 · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:08 pm Post subject:

It still isn't working :cry:

Does it make a difference that I am in i686, because when I was in i386 I didn't have so many problems

I enabled HID it made no difference.

In my last install it was /dev/input/mouse0

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject:

Black Zer0,

/dev/input/mice is all your pointers together. mouse0 is your first mouse.

What does

Black Zer0 · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject:

Ok so cat didn't bring up anything so I assume its a kernel error.
It didn't "finish" so I had to do ctrl c like you said.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:01 pm Post subject:

Black Zer0,

Yep, that a kernel error.

Under USB
You need USB 1.1 support, that UHCI-HCD or OHCI-HCD ... check your chipset.
You need HID support

You also need input device support, which it sounds like you have since your PS/2 mouse works
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Black Zer0 · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject:

Thank you VERY much. Its working now(except for removable media drives being absent but whatever) that one ochd-hcd made not only the mouse show up but-naturally-all my other usb devices.