Re: "no screens found" error

 On Wed, 7 May 2003, Sven Luther wrote:

> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 07:57:55AM +0100, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 May 2003, Salman Haq wrote:
> >
> > >  I just installed Debian on a Dell 2350 desktop. Unfortunately, startx
> > > doesn't run properly - it loads the drivers etc, and the spits out "no
> > > screens found".
> > >
> > >  I've run 'dpkg' to configure the xserver with the correct informations
> > > about the graphics card, mouse, keyboard, monitor, etc. However, there is
> > > just nothing I can do to figure out the cause of the problem.
> > >
> > >  Graphics: Integrated Intel 845GL
> >
> > The Intel 845 isn't supported before XFree86 4.3.
> > Which version of XFree86 does Debian provide ?
>
> He probaby just installed woody, the stable, released version, which has
> 4.1.0. Even sarge and sid only have 4.2.1, which would not be enough
> here, but 4.3.0 packages for woody are available with adding one of the
> apt sources from :
>
> http://www.linuxcompatible.org/story17614.html
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther

 That's correct, I did install woody. It comes with 4.1.0 which only
supports the Intel 740 and 810 chipsets. Let me try my luck with 4.3.0
and see what happens.

 Thanks ... salman