My real problem is, I called CTX, which is the manufacturer of the notebook, and they honestly told me they didn't know what they put in their notebooks themselves. They even suggest that I open the notebook to try my luck. Does any one know the probability of ruining the display if I take this risk? Thanks!
Chip Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > 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 > > Best wishes, Chip