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Hi, I'm new to Debian and just did a dual boot install with Win XP. I ran into the No Screen Error which I did some research on and couldn't seem to find an exact solution to it. So from my understanding, I believe this has to do with my hardware and driver issues. I did the install fine and installed the desktop, just a bare bone install and tried to start up debian. I got the fatal error and came to the conclusion that it was the way my display is set up. I run an ATI x800 GTO video card which has 2 displays an AGP and DVI monitor. The DVI is the main monitor I use and the AGP is the extended of my desktop. Is there a package I need to install to get the desktop to work? I figure if I can get into the desktop then I can fix whatever driver issue I have. Please let me know if anyone else has similar issues or know a fix to this. Thanks so much!

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Re: After Installation Fatal Error: No Screen Found

Submitted by Eeltje on Tue, 2008-04-08 04:40.

It seems that your problem has to do with starting the graphical desktop, with X.

Can you give information on your graphical card and your monitor(s)?
It would be fine if you could post the contents of xorg.conf located in /etc/X11.

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Eeltje de Vries

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Re: After Installation Fatal Error: No Screen Found

Submitted by agnath123 on Tue, 2008-04-08 09:11.

press alt+ctrl+F6 and enable the text mode. then type: root enter the password: . after this type lspci |grep VGA. this will give u an idea of the driver u r using. after this type dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. change the vga from i810 to vesa or the driver u r using.

gokulnath

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Re: After Installation Fatal Error: No Screen Found

Submitted by eltinator on Wed, 2008-04-09 02:31.

thanks for the help. I entered that config screen and chose my driver ati and named it etc and then it had me go into all these other questions like keyboard and monitor etc. Is there a way to bypass it and just save that and have debian autodetect the rest? Cause what happened was when I was asked to choose the bits of color of my monitor it exited saying:

xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting possibly-customised configuration file; backup in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.{date}

Anyways, after that I was back into the terminal as root. Any ideas what to do now? I tried starting the desktop again using startx but it said no screens found still

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