[TriLUG] X will not start on new Mandriva 2007 installation

[Douglas Ward]

drakx11 resolved the issue.  I didn't realize that mandriva did not set up
the display properly.  Thanks for the tip!

On 12/23/06, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 23 December 2006 18:16, Douglas Ward wrote:
> > I am hoping for a Christmas miracle...  :)
> >
> > I installed Mandriva 2007 (fully updated through urpmi) on my Dell
> Latitude
> > D620 laptop.  X will not start!  It returns the following error:
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > no screens found
> > X10: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0:
> >        after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> >
> > I have been working on this today and cannot seem to make sense of
> it.  In
> > my desperation I have uploaded the following files for your reading
> > pleasure:
> >
> > http://www.trilug.org/~douglas/xorg.conf
> > http://www.trilug.org/~douglas/Xorg.0.log
> >
> > If anyone can offer any assistance it would certainly be most
> appreciated.
> > I can run the laptop fine in command line mode but would love to use the
> > gui.  FYI: kubuntu and ubuntu both install and run properly with no
> > problems.  This seems to be a Mandriva specific problem.  Thanks!  Merry
> > Christmas!
>
> I haven't looked at your xorg.conf/0.log in detail because such things
> make me
> go blind but I have some suggestions.
>
> First, from the command prompt, try running rerunning drakx11, try a few
> different things, and see if any work. Also, get the specifications of
> your
> monitor, and when you configure your monitor, configure it "custom" and
> plug
> in those specifications. drakx11/XFdrake go way too conservative when they
> plug and play probe the monitor.
>
> If you can't get it working with drakx11/XFdrake, back up your current
> xorg.conf, boot a livecd version of Ubuntu or Knoppix, copy the xorg.confto
> Mandrake's /etc, reboot, and probably it will work. You can then exploit
> the
> differences between the two xorg.conf files to come up with the best for
> your
> machine while running Mandriva.
>
> I regularly boot Knoppix in order to get a valid xorg.conf for my
> Mandrake/Mandriva machines, and have been doing so for years. Sometimes I
> just run the Knoppix xorg.conf, and sometimes I need to tweak it for best
> performance, but for years I've been doing it and it usually works just
> fine.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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