Kevin Brosius on Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:05:04 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] x install


"William G. Zappasodi" wrote:
> 
> New ATI Rage fury card.
> SuperProbe found no chipset or memory size.
> Could not get x going.
> I get a black screen.
> I have all the info for my monitor etc.
> Have entered all correct settings.
> Exchanged card for ATI All-in-Wonder-Pro ($60 more)
> SuperProbe found no chipset or memory size. (again)
> Pulled down the xma64.tgz package from Slackware, installed package,
> Did xf86config again.
> same errors.
> Sometimes it doesn't write out the new config file.
> Below see error messages:
> None of the configured devices were detected.
> Fatal server error.
> No screens found.
> X connection to 0:0 broken
> (explicit kill on server shutdown).
> Thanks in advance
> 
> *******************
> William G. Zappasodi
> Crestec Digital
> Web Production
> bz@obd.com
> 

What does 'X -probeonly' say?  How about 'X -scanpci'?  What version of
XFree86 are you trying to run?

Look at /var/log/XFree86.* and see if there is any more detail in the
log file.

-- 
Kevin Brosius


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