[SOLVED] startx error: No screens found

SUSESailor · 04-14-2016, 11:52 PM

Hello, everyone. I am trying to run startx to launch X, but I always get the error: "No screens found, or none have a usable configuration."

X used to work fine on this machine, and it still does if I run it as root, but ever since removing SLIM I have been having this problem when trying to run startx as a normal user.

The machine is a fresh install of AV Linux (2016 version), which is built around debian. I tried running Xorg -configure and got a segmentation fault error.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

rtmistler · 04-15-2016, 11:11 AM

I think it's just "X --configure" not Xorg, but I may be incorrect.

Since you have it working when you're root, try comparing the Xorg.0.log from the good session versus the bad session.

jefro · 04-15-2016, 03:14 PM

Then we'd have to suspect that the login manager removal has changes some of the user settings that you used to set up login for x window.

I think sax2 would fix it.

SUSESailor · 04-15-2016, 09:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rtmistler

I think it's just "X --configure" not Xorg, but I may be incorrect.

Since you have it working when you're root, try comparing the Xorg.0.log from the good session versus the bad session.

X is just a symlink to Xorg, so it's the same thing.

I did try comparing the two Xorg.log files. What I found was this:

In the working file, these two lines are followed by literally pages and pages of VESA reported data.

Code:

(II) VESA(0): initializing int10
(II) VESA(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000

While, in the non-working log file, those two lines are replaced with these:

Code:

(II) VESA(0): initializing int10
(EE) VESA(0): Cannot read int vect

After which it unloads the modules "vesa," "int10" and "vbe" and then gives the "No screens found" error.

Does this help?

SUSESailor · 04-16-2016, 12:27 PM

I ended up finding this error somewhere else, and the solution turned out to be downloading the newest Xorg source code and recompiling the xserver locally.

Thanks everyone!