Reset xorg.conf

daviddoria · #1 12th January 2009, 02:00 AM

Something messed up my xorg.conf, so I thought in F10 you could simply delete it. I did that but X still would not start:

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$ startx
Fatal server error:
no screens found

I ran

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system-config-display

but I get "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'device'. Then I tried

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system-config-display --reconfig

but I get "Couldn't start X server on card 0. Error, failed to start X server".

What's the next step?

Thanks!

Dave

wneumann · #2 12th January 2009, 05:46 AM

I had that when I installed fc10. I have an nvidia card and I had to install the nvidia driver (from the livna repository) before I could use X. Is that maybe your problem?

daviddoria · #3 12th January 2009, 12:47 PM

I have an IBM T43p laptop. I think it is an ATI card. I tried following the instructions on this forum for installing those drivers, but that's what seemed to break it.

Any suggestions?

marcrblevins · #4 13th January 2009, 06:39 AM

Please start your terminal and type:

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lspci | grep VGA

If you search for ATI on this forum, you see the pattern, ATI dropped the ball. Nvidia is the way to go for now until AMD/ATI wakes up. I believe AMD bought out ATI.

daviddoria · #5 15th January 2009, 01:56 AM

Here is the output:

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[doriad@davedesktop ~]$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M24GL [Mobility FireGL V3200] (rev 80)

Anyone know how to install drivers for that?

Dave

davidvandoren · #6 15th January 2009, 01:17 PM

this is the link to ati website
Is thaat your card?
Fire GL3200
It gets you directly to the 32bit driver version http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

32 bit fedora select linux X86 and then fireGL then 3200
64 bit fedora select linux X86_64 then fireGL then 3200
ask around if this will work or not

good luck