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I am attempting to install Gentoo 1.4 on my machine.
XFree86 is not working correctly. When I "# startx" it gives me errors such as "Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/XFree86" and "Problem parsing the config file"
Then:
Fatal server error:
no screens found
[xfree86@xfree86.org e-mail address blip]
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
Then it takes me back to the prompt, which is: cdimage / #
you can have X probe your hardware and spit out it's own XFree file. This worked for me. Prior to that, I had the same problem as you (no screens found).
at the command prompt, type XFree86 -Configure.
After that, if you look at the XF86Config file, you'll see what it came up with.
In my case, I had to add a DefaultDepth line in my Screen section for 16.
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