Hi,

I was a Fedora/Red Hat user, and now I decided to install debian.

Everything went ok, but when I use the command "startx", the system
gives me some errors.

It says something about it can't find a screen, but one is installed, it
even says the name and model of my monitor.

I think it is because it cannot find the right drivers for my graphic card.
I selected VESA (or something like this) during install because I
couldn't find the driver name for my graphic card, I'm using a RIVA TNT
2, so I selected the default one.

Is there any way of reconfigure the drivers?
How?
Where can I get the drivers for my graphic card?
Fedora/Rh would recognize the graphics card, is there any way of doing
the sam with debian?

Thank you all for your help.

I had the same problem. I chose a color depth of 24 and that was the
problem. I changed that value in the /etc/X11/XF86Conig-4 file and the
next time, all came up OK.

Bruce

Simao Mata wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was a Fedora/Red Hat user, and now I decided to install debian.
>
> Everything went ok, but when I use the command "startx", the system
> gives me some errors.
>
> It says something about it can't find a screen, but one is installed, it
> even says the name and model of my monitor.
>
> I think it is because it cannot find the right drivers for my graphic
> card. I selected VESA (or something like this) during install because I
> couldn't find the driver name for my graphic card, I'm using a RIVA TNT
> 2, so I selected the default one.
>
> Is there any way of reconfigure the drivers?
> How?
> Where can I get the drivers for my graphic card?
> Fedora/Rh would recognize the graphics card, is there any way of doing
> the sam with debian?
>
> Thank you all for your help.

On Thu, Dec 16 2004, Simao Mata wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was a Fedora/Red Hat user, and now I decided to install debian.
>
> Everything went ok, but when I use the command "startx", the system
> gives me some errors.
>
> It says something about it can't find a screen, but one is installed,
> it even says the name and model of my monitor.
>
> I think it is because it cannot find the right drivers for my graphic
> card. I selected VESA (or something like this) during install because
> I couldn't find the driver name for my graphic card, I'm using a RIVA
> TNT 2, so I selected the default one.

You need to select the nvidia ("nv") driver for this card.

> Is there any way of reconfigure the drivers?
> How?

# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

> Where can I get the drivers for my graphic card?

The drivers on your system should work OK. Nvidia also provide
propriatory drivers.

> Fedora/Rh would recognize the graphics card, is there any way of doing
> the sam with debian?

You can run (as root, on the console)

# XFree86 -probeonly

which will print some information about detected hardware. See the man
page.
--
Neil

Hello

Simao Mata (<simao@bliter.com>) wrote:

> I was a Fedora/Red Hat user, and now I decided to install debian.
>
> Everything went ok, but when I use the command "startx", the system
> gives me some errors.
>
> It says something about it can't find a screen, but one is installed,
> it even says the name and model of my monitor.

Please tell us exactly what startx says. Also post the Device section
of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.

> I think it is because it cannot find the right drivers for my graphic
> card. I selected VESA (or something like this) during install because
> I couldn't find the driver name for my graphic card, I'm using a RIVA
> TNT 2, so I selected the default one.

Run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. Select the nv driver, that one
works with your card. If you want full 3D support, get the drivers from
nvidia.com. Also look for the valid frequencies of your monitor
(manual, manufactorer's home page or get-edid from the read-edid
package), select the advanced monitor configuration and enter the
values. And say "No" when debconf asks you if you want to use the
kernel framebuffer.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

--
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PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 ICQ #17079270
Registered Linux User #267976
http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps-sarge.html

Hi,

Thank you all for your help.

I managed to run my nice KDE, and gnome window managers.

I reconfigured my xsystem with the nv drivers, running dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xfree86 =))

But now I have some problems again.

:P

I have the bad habit of running "yum install package" or "yum update
package" within fedora/rh, and the yum would resolve all dependencies
and install all the packages I wanted.

Is there any other similar tool on debian?
I had 2 hours to resolve all depedencies to install firefox =\ lol

Anyway, I couln't install firefox.
When I run ./firefox-installer-bin I get some weird errors, saying I
don't have the necessary fonts "sans bold".
Do I have to install these fonts to? *damn* how?

Sorry for my noob questions on debian, but I'm falling back as a linux
user, as I begin to work with debian lol.

Thank you all.

Regards,
Simao Mata


Neil Woods wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16 2004, Simao Mata wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I was a Fedora/Red Hat user, and now I decided to install debian.
>>
>>Everything went ok, but when I use the command "startx", the system
>>gives me some errors.
>>
>>It says something about it can't find a screen, but one is installed,
>>it even says the name and model of my monitor.
>>
>>I think it is because it cannot find the right drivers for my graphic
>>card. I selected VESA (or something like this) during install because
>>I couldn't find the driver name for my graphic card, I'm using a RIVA
>>TNT 2, so I selected the default one.
>
>
> You need to select the nvidia ("nv") driver for this card.
>
>
>>Is there any way of reconfigure the drivers?
>>How?
>
>
> # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
>
>
>>Where can I get the drivers for my graphic card?
>
>
> The drivers on your system should work OK. Nvidia also provide
> propriatory drivers.
>
>
>>Fedora/Rh would recognize the graphics card, is there any way of doing
>>the sam with debian?
>
>
> You can run (as root, on the console)
>
> # XFree86 -probeonly
>
> which will print some information about detected hardware. See the man
> page.

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 02:24:09 +0000,
Simao Mata <simao@bliter.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you all for your help.
>
> I managed to run my nice KDE, and gnome window managers.
>
> I reconfigured my xsystem with the nv drivers, running dpkg-reconfigure
> xserver-xfree86 =))
>
> But now I have some problems again.
>
> :P
>
> I have the bad habit of running "yum install package" or "yum update
> package" within fedora/rh, and the yum would resolve all dependencies
> and install all the packages I wanted.
>
> Is there any other similar tool on debian?
> I had 2 hours to resolve all depedencies to install firefox =\ lol

man apt-get

Judging from the examples you gave usage shouldn't be a problem
for you.

Michael C.
--
mcsuper5@usol.com http://mcsuper5.freeshell.org/

Religion is the main cause of atheism.

Michael C. schrob:
>> [yum]
>> Is there any other similar tool on debian?
>
> man apt-get
>
> Judging from the examples you gave usage shouldn't be a problem
> for you.

I'd recommend aptitude over apt-get, it will remove unneeded
dependencies automatically. i.e. assuming foo depends on bar and baz:

aptitude install foo
[ aptitude installs foo, bar, baz ]
[ it turns out foo isn't that great ]
aptitude remove foo
[ aptitude removes foo, bar, baz ]

apt-get would have left bar and baz behind.
However, I don't "get" aptitude's GUI. dselect was better :/
But who needs GUIs anyway?

Jan

Jan Braun wrote:
> Michael C. schrob:
>
>>> [yum]
>>> Is there any other similar tool on debian?
>>
>>man apt-get
>>
>>Judging from the examples you gave usage shouldn't be a problem
>>for you.
>
>
> I'd recommend aptitude over apt-get, it will remove unneeded
> dependencies automatically. i.e. assuming foo depends on bar and baz:
>
> aptitude install foo
> [ aptitude installs foo, bar, baz ]
> [ it turns out foo isn't that great ]
> aptitude remove foo
> [ aptitude removes foo, bar, baz ]
>
> apt-get would have left bar and baz behind.
> However, I don't "get" aptitude's GUI. dselect was better :/
> But who needs GUIs anyway?
>
> Jan


Hi,

I managed to get around with apt-get and aptitude.
They sound nice and powerfull than yum

Still I get the error when installing firefox.

Thanks for your replys!

Simao

Simao Mata schrob:
> I managed to get around with apt-get and aptitude.
> They sound nice and powerfull than yum



> Still I get the error when installing firefox.

With debian, you shouldn't need to run any ./firefox-installer-bin
Just[1]

# aptitude install mozilla-firefox
$ firefox

should work. If it doesn't, please provide us with the exact
error messages you encounter.

Jan

[1] If you're using Woody, you'll need a backports.org line in your
sources.list for this.

Jan Braun wrote:
> Simao Mata schrob:
>
>>I managed to get around with apt-get and aptitude.
>>They sound nice and powerfull than yum
>
>
>
>
>
>>Still I get the error when installing firefox.
>
>
> With debian, you shouldn't need to run any ./firefox-installer-bin
> Just[1]
>
> # aptitude install mozilla-firefox
> $ firefox
>
> should work. If it doesn't, please provide us with the exact
> error messages you encounter.
>
> Jan
>
> [1] If you're using Woody, you'll need a backports.org line in your
> sources.list for this.


Yes, I'm using woody, I choosed to download the woody iso's because I
couldn't find any Portuguese mirrors to download sarge iso's, and I
don't have time to wait for the net install download the packages. =\

I'll try to add the backports.org lines to download firefox.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Best Regards,

Simao