jack_canada Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Hi, I just installed debian linux, and when I tried to "startx", it displayed a bunch of stuff and "no screens found", and something about cannot connect to x server? Any idea how to fix this? I think it's a video card issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rega451 Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Hi, I just installed debian linux, and when I tried to "startx", it displayed a bunch of stuff and "no screens found", and something about cannot connect to x server? Any idea how to fix this? I think it's a video card issue. 585239791[/snapback] It sounds like a video card issue to me too. I've been through this problem myself with Debian stable release 'Woody' . I don't know what video card you have, but I have an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 and it won't work with the ATI drivers provided in the Debian distro even though it appears it should. I got around it by choosing vesa instead of ATI when I set up my video portion of the installation. I later upgraded to the Debian testing version 'Sarge' and it accepted my ATI selection but created a whole new set of challenges which I won't go into right now. Just try using vesa as your video driver and see if that helps. BTW, when you install Debian you shouldn't have to manually start XFree86, it should automatically do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornett Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Could you post the exact error? It should provide some clues as to what is going wrong. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaguratuS Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 Just give us a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude2425 Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 I actualy installed debian today and got the exact same thing no matter what I tryed. I then installed ubuntu, but I have no idea what is going on with this. I haven't tryed to use vesa as the video driver though, I was using the nv driver. It'll be worth a shot next time I decide to switch distro's (I was using FC3 yesterday :D ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tapo Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 as root, type dpkg --reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and choose VESA as your driver, that should work. After that, download the drivers and reconfigure xfree86 to use them if you need hardware acceleration for games, if you don't, then VESA will work fine. If you've selected VESA and it still won't work, then repost here or visit irc.freenode.net #debian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revvo Posted January 9, 2005 Share Posted January 9, 2005 I'd first of all reccomend the Debian-Installer 'Sarge' to start on the right track, followed by a simple apt config to set it on 'unstable' so you can then get fetch the latest packages. (I don't know the mirrors by heart, ich bin nicht ein debianer!) VESA is really the "standard" 2D driver that should work with pretty much almost any video card but it has no acceleration so either install the nvidia drives once in X or you can just do it right away within the console. $ wget -t0 http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x...0-6629-pkg1.run $ su # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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