On Monday 17 September 2007, Ano Nymous wrote: > I hope this is the right place to ask this question. If not, please > point me to the right one! > > 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 > only says that its an ati card, but it also knows the correct model > (1900xt). > > 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 > googling for the error, but i couldnt find anything useful. but since > im a linux noob, thats no suprise. When booting and it lists that you've got an ATI card and the model, it should list what X video driver is going to be used. Can you tell me what that is. It should be "radeon", "ati" or "fglrx". -- Pat Double, pat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx "Ye must be born again." - John 3:7
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