X server -- Debian Woodie

[Anto35]

Hi,
I recently install Linux (Debian Woodie 3.0) on my computer but I 've got a porblem with the X server. It crash when I try to run it (I use the startX command) and I get the following message:"Can't find an usable screen!"
So I need some help or links to some documentation to solve this problem.
Thanx, Anto.

 

[steinermann]

You may have the wrong driver selected for your video card. The /var/XF86.0.log should have an (EE) in it if the driver has a problem. If you have kde installed kxconfig is a good utility for setting up a new driver. If not you will need to find out what Debian comes with for this. You can also try xf86cfg, and as a last resort xf86config. If you have a newer NVIDIA video card,

http://www.nvidia.com

has drivers available for Linux that you may want to install. They have instruction on the site for installing it. Hope this helps.

 

[Anto35]

There is no (EE) for the video card in the /var/XF86.0.log file, I think that I use the right driver (My video card is recognize). But apm can't be launched and The server found screen but none have an usable configuration, even if I am in the 800*600 mode.

 

[steinermann]

You may also have the wrong monitor selected in your config. Just a thought.

 

[flugh]

A quick way to reconfigure/retry all this with Debian is to use:

dpkg-reconfigure <packagename>

In your case, packagename might be xfree86-server. Older v3.x.x of XFree86 in Debian were named xfree86-svga, etc after each different server.