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Old 10-10-2002, 10:47 PM   #1
poacher
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Unhappy GNOME won't work


Hi

I've installed slackware 8.1 with the packs a, d, l, n, x and gnome

but everytime i try to run it, it gets a fatal error

here is what is shown at the end of the log:

Total Memory: 128 64Kb banks (8M)
(EE) VESA(0): No matching modes
(II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
(II) UnloadModule: "ddc"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a
(II) UnloadModule: "int10"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a
(II) UnloadModule: "vbe"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

my video card is a trident blade3d 8mb ram onboard
 
Old 10-11-2002, 05:56 AM   #2
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Did you setup your X server? Chances are that before you can do anything to do with X you'll need to edit your XF86Config file.
 
Old 10-11-2002, 11:19 AM   #3
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run xconfigurator
for more help search in this forum. I think this issue is already discussed manytimes .
 
  


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