On Wed, 5 May 1999, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: > Thanks for all that responds to my questions. I believe the reason why X > server crashes on my system is a minor configuration problem. Here's the > error message. I'd appreciate it if anyone can direct me to fix this > problem. Thanks in advance! > ... > > Fatal server error: > No valid modes found. >
Just like it says: you have no valid modes. Fortunately for you it's not crashing, just exiting with an informative error message. :-) It could be because you put in the wrong values for your card/monitor (hsync/vsync/etc.) or it could be that you need to add some new modes. Most likely the former. I'm not sure how laptops work here so maybe the debian-laptop people will know. Unfortunately I can't tell you what values to use; it just depends on the card, etc. You're using the 'generic' chipset driver, which means X isn't grokking your hardware, which means even if you get this going it's gonna be pretty slow and low quality. If you can find an appropriate card-specific driver, it may well be able to figure out the hardware better and find a usable mode. If you haven't tried using xf86config, give it a whirl; go through slowly and answer all the questions accurately and it should work. (I missed the start of the thread, so disregard if you already tried that...) Havoc
