"no screens found" linux problem

[jobberd]

Installed debian woody recently, and I can't seem to get X windows working. Whenever I run xinit/X/XFree86/etc, the screen goes black, then comes back giving me the error message "no screens found". When I run through the XFree86 configuration program (the text-based one, not the graphical one) and it asks for my video card driver, there is no ATI radeon to choose from even though I'm running version 4.1.0.1 of X windows. On top of it all, running uname -a shows that the kernel version is 2.2.19 even though I downloaded woody. Kind of stumped. Pasted the last part of the /var/log/XFree86.0.log. PM me if you want the whole log. thanks




<< (II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
(II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
(II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4
(II) RADEON(0): PCI bus 1 card 0 func 0
(**) RADEON(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp pixmaps)
(==) RADEON(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(**) RADEON(0): Option "UseFBDev" "true"
(==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 888
(II) RADEON(0): Using 8 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
(**) RADEON(0): Using framebuffer device
(II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
(II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a
(II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.0.2
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4
(II) UnloadModule: "ati"
(II) UnloadModule: "fbdevhw"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a
(II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
(II) UnloadModule: "radeon"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found >>

 

[jobberd]

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[jobberd]

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[warhorse]

Check your kernel! Radeon support didn't work for me until after 2.4.8. The symptoms you describe are exactly what I used to have. Monitor goes into power save and doesn't respond.

Here's what you need:
4.1.0 or higher
2.4.8 or higher
add "agpgart agp_try_unsupported = 1" to modules stuff

Or was that too technical for you (Actually that's all I know, I'm a Mandrake l4m3r so OpenGL and everything worked with the default kernel and X. I just added that line to /etc/modules)

Good luck.

edited to add, there is a radeon module option in the kernel after 2.4.something, so get the latest and recompile it.

 

[FUBAR]

as for your current kernel, this is from the debian woody info page:

Linux kernel 2.4 is judged not to be mature enough to be a default for most architectures at this time, but you can install a 2.4 kernel from Debian after completing your installation.