Two thoughts: 1) When you got stuck during X configuration, and had to reboot, did you press the 'ctrl-alt-backspace'? If so, did it respond? This key chord is is supposed to kill the X server.
2) In the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, there should be a Screen section. (Search for a line that says 'Section Screen' or 'Section "Screen"'.) I've included that section from my system below. Is yours much different? If it's not present in your XF86Config-4, copy mine in, see if that helps. (BTW, I assume you are using X version 4. You can discover your version by doing 'dpkg -l xserver-common' on the command line; the version column should say '4.<something>'. If it is 3.<something>, work with /etc/X11/XF86Config, not /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.) Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 1" # Haoyu - you should change the Device argument to match your video card # Read the "SCREEN SECTION" part of XF86Config-4 man page Device "Verto TNT2-M64" Monitor "MyMonitor" DefaultDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 #Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" Modes "1024x768" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 #Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" #Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" Modes "1024x768" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 32 Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection On Monday 14 June 2004 12:00 pm, Haoyu Zhang wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I am a new user of Debian and just installed it in an old Dell > machine, Dell Optiplex with PIII 500. The installation went > through well, but I met problems of X Window setting. > > The X Window can start correctly. However, after letting it > idle for a while, like one day, the system crashes and reports > error saying: > > "I cannot find the X Server (your graphical interface). It is > likely that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view > the X server output to diagnose the problem?" > > I chose "Yes" and it gives me some information. It seems that > everything is set to be default or generic. And the fatal error > is "No screens found." > > Then it asked me whether I want to run X configuration. I did > and found that I can do nothing except for moving the small > arrow with keyboard. I even can't find way to exit it. And I > had to reset the computer to restart. > > I do feel strange. The X Server starts well, but why does it > crash after long time idling? I was wondering whether it is > the data switch that caused this. I connected two computers > with a switch. The other one is M$ Win2000. But this can't > explain why it won't crash after a short term idling. > > Thanks a lot in advance for your help. > > Best Wishes, > Haoyu -- Best, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com Internet Joint Ventures - http://amusene.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]