07-14-06 12:13 AM
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:09:50 -0700, 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.
I hope this helps.
When you swithced to Etch, you also switched from XFree86 to xorg as your
X server. Xorg is setup to detect and configure your hardware on its own.
Unfortunately, it seems to still be a little dodgy in that department.
This is especially true if you have ATI or NVIDIA video cards. With that
said :
Problem 1 - getting your network connection back:
Log in as root or user then su
Type ifconfig
This will list the condition of your network connections. You should see
your eth1 card listed on the left along with the loopback connection (lo).
If not, cd to /etc/network and less interfaces
This should look something like this:
# The loopback interface
# Interfaces that comes with Debian Potato does not like to see
# "auto" option before "iface" for the first device specified.
iface lo inet loopback
auto lo
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.3
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
auto eth0
interfaces (END)
use your vi editor to change the file to conform to your setup. Check the
man page for ifconfig for further information. Run ifconfig again. You may
have to reboot. Try apt-get --reinstall install xorg. It should work
Lets stop here. You may still have problems once this is done. I sure did.
After several days of mucking around I have a completely working system
with an ATI Radeon 9000 video card.
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