X server problems
Hello.
I recently installed Debian Etch on a Gateway M305CRV. The install when great without problems but, the X server doesn't work. When I try to start X I get a message: Failed to start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likly that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X server output to diagnose the problem? I press yes and I get: Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" I810(0): No video BIOS modes for chosen depth. Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found My bios doesn't give any video options, I noticed that the Video Memory is only 8MB but, I can't change it. How can I fix my problem? Thanks in advanced for your help. |
Here are general settings for your video.
Try this link:
http://linux.die.net/man/4/intel Gives basic options and information on setting up the video for the 'Intel 852MG (chipset integrated)' card including which driver to use. |
try to run
Xorg -configure test the given config file Xorg -config xorg.conf Do you have loaded the kernel module try modconf or modprobe i810 if nothing helps you could try the vesa driver |
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The driver gets loaded. From reading the man page, it says that in order for me to change the VideoRam option I need to have "agpgart" or "agp" kernel driver. I tried to do modprobe agp and agpgart but neither are not found. Could that be it? Is not loading those modules and that's why it fails. Please be patient with me since I've never installed or got linux to run X in the past. |
I did some changes to xorg.conf and now I get "(EE) No drivers available.
Here's what it looks like now: Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" # path to defoma fonts FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" EndSection Section "Module" Load "i2c" Load "bitmap" Load "ddc" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "vbe" # Load "agpgart" # Load "i810" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0" EndSection Section "Device" #Identifier "Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device" Identifier "Device[0]" Driver "i810" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" VideoRam 128 VendorName "Intel" #Option "usevnc" "no" Screen 0 Option "LFP" "" EndSection Section "Monitor" #Identifier "Generic Monitor" Identifier "Monitor[0]" HorizSync 28-70 VertRefresh 43-60 Option "DPMS" # Option "LCD" Option "DRI" "1" UseModes "Modes[0]" EndSection Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[0]" Modeline "1280x768" 77.37 1280 1344 1480 1680 768 769 772 794 Modeline "1024x768" 61.89 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 794 Modeline "1280x600" 58.78 1280 1328 1456 1632 600 601 604 621 Modeline "1024x600" 47.26 1024 1064 1168 1312 600 601 604 621 Modeline "800x600" 36.88 800 832 912 1024 600 601 604 621 Modeline "768x576" 33.74 768 792 872 976 576 577 580 596 Modeline "640x480" 23.06 640 656 720 800 480 481 484 497 EndSection Section "Screen" # Identifier "Default Screen" # Device "Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device" # Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection Device "Device[0]" Identifier "Screen[0]" Monitor "Monitor[0]" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" #Screen "Default Screen" #InputDevice "Screen[0]" #InputDevice "Device[0]" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection Now what's the problem? |
Please help with this. I still haven't fix this problem.
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I believe your using the wrong driver try the module intelfb if not present download latest linux sourcecode from kernel.org and get kernel-package, make, libncurses5-dev, zlib1g-dev, gcc from debian repository kernel-package comes with a documentation in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package or get a newer kernel from a repository
so what you you have to do is download from debian testing repository the latest kernel for now it's linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 and install it with dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.26-1-686_2.6.26-12_i386.deb or do the following apt-get install kernel-package make libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gcc bzip2 cd /usr/src wget -c http://www.weedlight.ch/help/config-2.6.26-1-686 wget -c http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v...2.6.28.tar.bz2 tar -xjf linux-2.6.28.tar.bz2 cd linux-2.6.28 make menuconfig now you have to load the old debian config file 'config-2.6.26-1-686' make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image cd .. dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.28_custom.1.0_i386.deb I'm having a similar graphics card in my laptop and I had graphics support after installation but I compiled the kernel by my self as shown above to get my wifi card to work with iwlagn driver If you have also a laptop perhaps you want use my kernel image http://www.weedlight.ch/help/linux-i...m.1.0_i386.deb it's only for laptops! |
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