veridical wrote:
> I searched through the group and didn't find any answers that seemed to
> relate to me. I have also searched Google with little success. If I
> overlooked something, please post a link or something. On to my
> problem:
>
> My computer:
> AMD Athlon 4000+
> Biostar NF4UL nforce4 motherboard using nforce4 ethernet
> Sapphire Radeon x850 XT
>
> I have freshly installed etch to a partition on my hard drive with the
> testing netinst CD. I did not upgrade from an earlier version. I used
> etch because the sarge netinst would not recognize my nforce4 ethernet
> and I did not have a spare ethernet card lying around. When booting
> into Debian, everything seemed to be going fine, but then the screen
> flashes and GNOME does not start up due to an error with the X server.
> "Fatal error: No screens found" I tried using apt-get to reinstall xorg
> or something, but it doesn't seem to be able to connect which is odd
> since apt worked fine during the installation. Any time I try to use
> apt-get, I get an error. I'm sorry I didn't write down the exact text
> of the error. I think it might be trying to connect using eth0, when
> eth1 is the actual nforce ethernet port. Unfortunately, I don't know
> how to check on this in the console as I am not very experienced with
> Linux. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>

edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Make sure you have all the correct values in a
section named "Screen". Any extra characters might cause problems.

It should look something like this

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Generic Video Card"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
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EndSection