Ryan,

If I may ask some ignorant questions,

Where and when do I type nano? Er...from the desktop, I use the
terminal? I'm guessing.

What is startx and how do I try it?

> Hi, do you know what kind of video card you have?

No idea. I might be able to look that up later using XP. But I'm using
Mint right now.


I.


On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:36:37 +0000, "ryan" <rolabear@???> said:
> Hi, do you know what kind of video card you have?
>
> And this might work in the mean time.
>
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> Type this in:
>
> nano /etc/X11xorg.conf
>
> Then scroll down until you get to a line that looks kinda like this:
>

> Section      "Device"
>                  Identifier    "VGA"
>                  Driver        "nv"

>
> Change "nv" (or what ever it is for you) to "vesa"
>
> Them press Ctrl+x to exit, and y to save.
>
> Then try startx again. If that doesn't work do the same again
> but change the "nv" to "fbdev" instead.
>
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> Hope that helps,
> Ryan
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> On 18/07/07, Loren Zawodny < lorenzawodny@???> wrote:
> >
> > Ok I have had a few replies and here are the error messages
> > that come up:
> >
> > error messages are:
> >
> > (EE) no deviced detected
> >
> > Fatal Server Error: No Screens Found
> >
> > error 104 on X server
> >
> > I have been advised that this is a problem with the X
> > server. When I run 'startx' it loops me back around to the
> > same place. Call me crazy but is this a bug in the LiveCD?
> > I run other flavors of linux with no trouble.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
> > LZ
> >
> >
> >
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