Starting Out With Linux Problems

Tinkster · 06-13-2006, 10:56 PM

Sorry, doesn't mean much to me; as I don't have any recent SuSEs around I can't
look into it in more detail. I would suggest to try a "manual" configuration of
Xorg, either using X -configure (see what that has to say, anyway) or xorgconfig
if all else fails. The latter will require some knowledge about the graphics/
keyboard/monitor/mouse, though.

Cheers,
Tink

andrew285 · 06-14-2006, 09:58 AM

Allright I'll give that a try. Thanks for the help.

If anyone else knows anything about this problem feel free to throw in your input.

andrew285 · 06-14-2006, 02:35 PM

well I've tried what you've siad and it still didn't work. If anyone has anypossible solution then please share it. This is getting very frusterating. I don't want to give up on it. One more thing that might help is that, besides the video card I've got in there I also have an on-board video port. Could that possibly be causeing any problems? Any input from anyone would be highly appreciated.

Tinkster · 06-14-2006, 07:15 PM

It might - do you have the on-board thing-a-mabob disabled in BIOS?

When you say "well I've tried what you've siad and it still didn't work.", which steps
did you take? What did X -configure say, and what was the result of running X with the
automatically created config-file?
What values did you tell xorgconfig to use, what was the output when you tried starting
X after that manual config?

Cheers,
Tink

andrew285 · 06-14-2006, 09:42 PM

There's no real "disable" setting for the on-board video. The closest thing there is to that is to auto disable the onboard if there's a pci video card in one of the pci slots.

X -configure failed and gave some errors of which I've forgotten but I will report them to you when I rerun it again.

In xorgconfig I gave it the values appropriate for what hardware I had. (32MB video memory, 1024 x 768 pixels @ 75 Hz, etc etc.) And it still failed with the same errors as before.

However after looking at the sax2 log again I found another thing that might interest you. As I was looking through it I saw a list of errors that kept ending up at the same conclusion. "Not enough memory" These errors, if I recall right, were in the video boot section. Didn't know if that interested you but thats what I found.

andrew285 · 06-16-2006, 05:25 PM

Okay here's the aftermath of running the X -configure.

Code:

dlopen: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/atimisc10b_drv.so: Undefined symbol: ATITVStandardNames
(EE) Failed to load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/atimisc10b_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "atimisc10b" (loader failed, 7)
dlopen: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/apm_drv.so: Undefined symbol: XVRTPort
(EE) Failed to load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/apm_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "apm" (loader failed, 7)
(++)Using config file: "root/xorg.conf.new"
Number of screens created does not match number of detected devices.
Configuration Failed

It still will not boot up after running this.

Tinkster · 06-16-2006, 06:14 PM

Ok - I'm afraid that this is becoming quite SuSE specific,
and will shuffle your thread to the SuSE forum - hope you
don't mind? I firmly believe that your chances to get help
will increase significantly.

Cheers,
Tink

andrew285 · 06-16-2006, 06:45 PM

Okay great. i had posted a similar thread but it got locked so I was hoping this'd get moved here.

Okay, anyone here know what's going on?

hhvv · 07-14-2007, 02:29 AM

Are you using Matrox G 400 Graphics card.Then go through the followiing

Configured display using xorgconfig

The driver got setup automatically was "mga"

But while trying to start X11 using startx it showed the following error message

Error while loading module atimisc10b
No driver found
No screens found
No device to configure ,etc

Edited the Device Section for the Monitor
Replaced the

Driver "vga" entry by
Driver "fbdev"

Section "Device"
Identifier "Matrox"
# Driver "vga"
Driver "fbdev"
# unsupported card
#VideoRam 262144
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

Started X11 by startx

It showed an error related with resolution
The error was just a graphical message displaying "Hz ?"

So edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf

And replaced the
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
with
Modes "1024x768"

under the Subsection "Display"

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
# ### Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection

And the Defaultdepth was set to "24" in the "Screen" Section

X11 Display got workig after this

But there were problems related with Horizontal and Vertical Refresh Rates

So looked into the Rerfresh Rates under the
"Monitor" Section

And set as

HorizSync 30 - 70
VertRefresh 40-160

Thereafter it seemed that Mouse is not working
Mine is a USB Mouse

Mouse device got detected was /dev/device-mapper
After referring the YaST Hardware Database it is clear thet the Mouse device is /dev/input/mice

So edited the "InputDevice " Section for mouse

as below

ection "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"

#### Changed the Device
# Option "Protocol" "Busmouse" # Bus Mouse
# ## Option "Device" "/dev/device-mapper"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

But it didn't help.The mouse didn't work

Again looked into the same .And this time i just commented the
Option "Protocol" Section
and commented out "Resolution 256"
as shown below

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
#### Changed the Device
# ## Option "Protocol" "Busmouse" # Bus Mouse
# Option "Device" "/dev/device-mapper"
## Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

# Mouse-speed setting for PS/2 mouse.

Option "Resolution" "256"

# Option "BaudRate" "9600"
Option "SampleRate" "150"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
# Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"

# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice

# Option "ChordMiddle"

EndSection

After this everything got working except the Colour depth
You may get a lower bit colour display

hhvv · 07-14-2007, 04:44 AM

Configured display using xorgconfig

The driver got setup automatically was "mga"

But while trying to start X11 using startx it showed the following error message

Error while loading module atimisc10b
No driver found
No screens found
No device to configure ,etc

Edited the Device Section for the Monitor
Replaced the

Driver "vga" entry by
Driver "fbdev"

Section "Device"
Identifier "Matrox"
# Driver "vga"
Driver "fbdev"
# unsupported card
#VideoRam 262144
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

Started X11 by startx

It showed an error related with resolution
The error was just a graphical message displaying "Hz ?"

So edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf

And replaced the
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
with
Modes "1024x768"

under the Subsection "Display"

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
# ### Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection

And the Defaultdepth was set to "24" in the "Screen" Section

X11 Display got workig after this

But there were problems related with Horizontal and Vertical Refresh Rates

So looked into the Rerfresh Rates under the
"Monitor" Section

And set as

HorizSync 30 - 70
VertRefresh 40-160

Thereafter it seemed that Mouse is not working

Mouse device got detected was /dev/device-mapper
After referring the YaST Hardware Database it is clear thet the Mouse device is /dev/input/mice

So edited the "InputDevice " Section for mouse

as below

ection "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"

#### Changed the Device
# Option "Protocol" "Busmouse" # Bus Mouse
# ## Option "Device" "/dev/device-mapper"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

But it didn't help.The mouse didn't work

Again looked into the same .And this time i just commented the
Option "Protocol" Section
and commented out "Resolution 256"
as shown below

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
#### Changed the Device
# ## Option "Protocol" "Busmouse" # Bus Mouse
# Option "Device" "/dev/device-mapper"
## Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

# Mouse-speed setting for PS/2 mouse.

Option "Resolution" "256"

# Option "BaudRate" "9600"
Option "SampleRate" "150"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
# Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"

# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice

# Option "ChordMiddle"

EndSection

After this everything got working except the Colour depth