debian 4.0 X does not start after installation

#1 07-08-2008, 04:06 PM

In the log file the last message is

(EE) Device not present
(or something like this)

It seems that auto configuration did not
work.

How can I configure manually my X windows
system? is there a command such as x-config
or something like this?

maitre Aliboron

#2 07-08-2008, 04:19 PM

maitre Aliboron a écrit :
> In the log file the last message is
>
> (EE) Device not present
> (or something like this)
>
> It seems that auto configuration did not
> work.
>
> How can I configure manually my X windows
> system? is there a command such as x-config
> or something like this?

dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg

#3 07-08-2008, 05:25 PM

"maitre Aliboron" writes:
>In the log file the last message is
>
>(EE) Device not present
>(or something like this)

That's very little for us to work with, but still I'll make a guess:

I have seen such things several times with Debian when using Radeon
(R200-R4xx) cards. The solution was to delete the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
generated by Debian; without the broken xorg.conf file the X server
autoconfigured itself nicely and correctly.

>How can I configure manually my X windows
>system?

emacs /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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