Re: I broke my X
Norval Watson wrote: Hi, My xserver is broken, maybe because I was a bit late changing my sources from debian-pure64 to debian-amd64 to just debian. I also did apt-get -f install a few times which might have made it worse. /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows ... Failed to load module GLcore ... Failed to load module speedo ... Failed to load module nv ... Failed to load module mouse ... Fatal server error no screens found I am running kernel 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8 What might I try to rectify this situation? Thanks Norv Switch to a real debian mirror, reinstall the xorg package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I broke my X
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * On 2006-05-26 09:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hi, : My xserver is broken, maybe because I was a bit late changing my sources from : debian-pure64 to debian-amd64 to just debian. I also did apt-get -f install a : few times which might have made it worse. : : /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows : ... : Failed to load module GLcore : ... : Failed to load module speedo : ... : Failed to load module nv : ... : Failed to load module mouse : ... : Fatal server error : no screens found : : I am running kernel 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8 : : What might I try to rectify this situation? maybe a apt-get install --reinstall xorg xserver-xorg-input-foo xserver-xorg-input-bar could help or at least give you some hints. lg raf -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEdwMZR/faipuTVh4RAjXfAJ9vCw1kA+izlKzXt1VN8ECM83OCWgCfUvDN RzYQODyvggKwGSRhCvAvgsY= =n0AF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I broke my X
On 5/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * On 2006-05-26 09:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hi, : My xserver is broken, maybe because I was a bit late changing my sources from : debian-pure64 to debian-amd64 to just debian. I also did apt-get -f install a : few times which might have made it worse. : : /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows : ... : Failed to load module GLcore : ... : Failed to load module speedo : ... : Failed to load module nv : ... : Failed to load module mouse : ... : Fatal server error : no screens found : : I am running kernel 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8 : : What might I try to rectify this situation? maybe a apt-get install --reinstall xorg xserver-xorg-input-foo xserver-xorg-input-bar could help or at least give you some hints. lg raf I ran into a similar situation last week when ditching an nvidia card for the onboard via. Check your xorg.conf file and see if it has the correct entries for your system. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg ran through all of the questions (and even remembered my entries from previous runs), but would not change the xorg.conf file because it looked like it was a customized file. Part of the problem was due to upgrading from etch and it's stock kernel (2.6.15-blah) to sid (2.6.16-blah) and modules like nv not being available. hope this helps, -- Matt
RE: I broke my X
Norval Watson wrote: /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows ... Failed to load module GLcore ... Failed to load module speedo ... Failed to load module nv ... Failed to load module mouse ... Fatal server error no screens found The errors about modules by themselves aren't fatal, except possibly for the mouse module. You can fix that by installing xserver-xorg-modules-input-mouse (or something similar, search for xserver.*mouse) in dselect). Look in /var/log/xorg.log.0 (or something like that; 'ls -lrt' in /var/log after you try to start X and it will be one log files at the end of the listing). This log file will tell you why it found no screens. One way for that to happen is when the vert and horiz sync ranges are too narrow and the resolutions too high. You can expand the ranges (the manual for the monitor will have the safe ranges, could be something like 30-65 for horiz and 60-90 for vert); or you can try a lower resolution in the screen section (for example, add 800x600 so that that is looks like Modes 800x600 1600x1200 The log file will be helpful in diagnosing this. If all else fails, you can always uninstall all xserver-* packaegs and re-install; although this may mean reinstalling Gnome packages, etc. -- Bhaskar S. Manda
