Re: Advice for troubleshooting X (total screen loss) -- Newb Alert

El sáb, 28-06-2008 a las 16:57 -0400, Jeff Soules escribió:
Thanks for the help so far, everyone.

> I have retried using both of the generic drivers. Now I'm
getting a
> fatal server error -- no screens found.
> Still not working, but at least it's enough to start me on
further
> research.
>>
> The monitor in question is an Acer 22" lcd, if anyone out
there has
> any experience with these.
>

Can you post your xorg.conf and the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log?


As requested I have attached my xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log files. I'm
attaching the conf and log files which occurred using the nv driver,
although I get the same results (near as I can tell) when using the
vga driver.
You can also see that I've disabled glx output and restricted screen
resolution to 1024x768 or lower (non-widescreen resolutions) in the
hope that this might help, but no luck so far.

Ok, the xorg.conf seems ok. Just to be sure anyway, go back to the file
that was created by dpkg-reconfigure, since the modifications didn't
help there's no need for them to be there.


The problem doesn't seem monitor-related. What's the output of 'lspci |
grep VGA'?


And, BTW, you're using etch, right?


To keep the message length down I have attached these files instead of
copied the text. Hope this doesn't violate any mailing list etiquette
rules.

Haven't gotten the box to recognize the monitor yet, although I did
manage to get the mouse configured correctly thanks to mdetect. Is it
unusual to have to require root privileges to open /dev/psaux ? I
couldn't cat that device file on my usual login, and mdetect could not
discover it without being run as root.

Yes, it's normal. The X server is run as root anyway.


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