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tgop
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 Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:25 am Post subject: can't start X with vesa - help |
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I am totally new to linux and i just can't seem to get xorg working! I have been trying the whole day and gotten practically nowhere. I build gentoo from suspend2-sources on Acer TravelMate 4602LCi it is based on the Centrino Sonoma chipset. It all seemed to be great but then I tried to start X. I can't even start it successfully with vesa, all it says is:
"VESA: No matching device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:0)"
When I boot from the minimal install cd and try to start X it starts but the screen is stretched off the screen. This stretching resembles:
|*x*x*x*x*x*x*|
|*x*x*x*x*x*x*|
|*x*x*x*x*x*x*| where: x is a pixel and * is black space - it looks like many tiny blocks half pf which are just black
|*x*x*x*x*x*x*| ->(screen should be longer - mouse moves off the screen and window layout is as if part of the screen to the right were cut off)
|*x*x*x*x*x*x*|
|*x*x*x*x*x*x*|
(sorry, I didn't know how else to describe it!)
GNOME works perfectly with Ubuntu live cd, and I think that the quickest way to resolve this would be to look at the system under the Ubuntu live cd and copy across settings, but I don't know what settings to copy!
If I try it with i810 then it the same error is received, only I810 is substituted for VESA. |
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ikaro
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comment the line that says PCI:0:2:0 in your xorg.conf.
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tgop
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| ikaro wrote: | | comment the line that says PCI:0:2:0 in your xorg.conf. |
There is no line like that in xorg.conf. Note that the message is a warning, not an error. The actual error is "no screens found". I think what the warning means is that it detected a display device but it did not detect a corresponding Device section in xorg.conf. Unfortunately I do not know how to add one. Also, I think this is relate: I cannot access the graphics mode of links2, it says:
"Could not initialize graphics driver. Tried the following drivers:
x:
Can't open display ':0:0'
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I _could_ get into links graphics mode before under the install cd. I have enabled all the kernel options that I could see were related to this. In fact, I worked from the install-cd kernel .config file and unchecked options that I thought didn't apply, perhaps I inadvertently deactivated something important. The little tux on top of the screen after booting _does_ show up (thought this might be relevent). Any help would be greatly appreciated! |
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