"no screens found" error

From: JamesJack (cesario_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 01/24/04

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    Date: 24 Jan 2004 04:25:22 -0800
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    Hello there

    I have been trying to get a graphics environment to work in linux
    (gnome,
    kde, or x). Im very new to linux.

    The system is an 800Mhz AMD Duron with 256Mb SDRAM with 80Gb Maxtor
    HD.

    When its installing, i get two error messages that packages cxref and
    gdm
    (??) didn't install properly. How might i fix that?

    The system is shared graphics -- is this a problem? ( i tryed putting
    in a Voodoo3 card but i get the same error messages).

    When using vesa and starting x i get "no screens found".

    The Debian version is 3.0r2 (woody) and i've tryed both the kernel
    versions
    which come with it (err, 2.2.0 and 2.4.0 i think).

    Any help or information would be very much appreciated!
    James

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