Re: [ANNOUNCE] Incognito CD/USB 20070824.1 released

[Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

     On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:35:06 +0200 Thomas Hluchnik
<Thomas.Hluchnik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

     Oh, for crying out loud.  Another top-poster.  What is it with the
people on this list that there are so many who are too damned lazy to edit
their followups properly?

>can you find out which graphics driver is used? It seems to me as if the fglrx
>driver is used, which works bad for older ATI cards. Is ist possible to use the
>radeon driver instead?

     Hold on a bit.  Zitat von Ano Nymous <justiceftw@xxxxxxxxx> has yet to
show us any kernel messages, so we don't have a clue what's going on.  Or,
rather, we have several possibilities with no way to distinguish which one
might be the real problem.
>
>I have a ATI card, too, and I am just going to throw it away, though its quite a

     Such impatience.

>good card. Next time I buy a Nvidia, hope that runs better.
>
     How about mentioning which card you have?  They do not all have the same,
or even similar, characteristics.  How about some kernel messages from your
system, as well as the X log messages about the card?
>
>
>Zitat von Ano Nymous <justiceftw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> I hope this is the right place to ask this question. If not, please
>> point me to the right one!

     It definitely is not.  I would recommend not following up to this list,
but you and/or Mr. Hluchnik are welcome to email me directly.  A more
appropriate place would be one of the LINUX lists or one of the lists for X.org
or XFree86, as the case may be.
>>
>> Im having a problem with booting the incognito cd. i am always being
>> dropped to the command prompt. my video card seems to be detected
>> correctly though.
>>
>> after trying "startx" the screen goes black for one second, and then i
>> get this error message:
>>
>> (EE) no devices detected
>> fatal server error:
>> no screens found
>> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
>> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 remaining.
>>
>> it looks like its a problem with the video card driver, maybe? which
>> is weird because incognito detects my video card correctly. it not

     What is "incognito" in this context?

>> only says that its an ati card, but it also knows the correct model
>> (1900xt).

     Which X (i.e., X.org or XFree86) are you using and which version of it?
Did you ever configure by running "Xorg -configure" if you're running X.org?
(There's an equivalent thing to run for XFree86, but it has been so long since
I last did that that I don't remember exactly what it is.)
>>
>> i had the exact same problem with the previous incognito version by the way.
>>
>> I hope that i have included all the necessary information. if you need
>> to know more, to diagnose the problem, just ask! i already tried

     At a minimum, you need to
	a) identify the X11 package and version that you are using,
	b) identify the operating system and version that you are using, and
	c) state the hardware configuration you are using.

>> googling for the error, but i couldnt find anything useful. but since
>> im a linux noob, thats no suprise.
>>
     I can't imagine why you chose a tor list to post questions about LINUX
or X11.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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