On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:02:03PM -0600, Jonathon Jongsma wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm relatively new to linux -- i've been fooling around with > mandrake 8.2 on an old pentium 166 machine for few months now. > Anyway, i just got a decent deal on a new dell dimension 2300 > computer, so I bought it and decided to install mandrake 9.0. > Everything seemed to install fine except for the video stuff > for x. I can boot up and do all the command-line stuff, but > when I attempt to startx, it gives me an error saying > "Screen(s) found but none have a valid configuration" and > aborts. The video card is supposedly "Integrated Intel Extreme > 3D Graphics". Anybody have any experience with this? Any > suggestions? First off, I am not sure what the "Mandrake-way" to do things is. I think that you need to find out what the video chipset is. Its quite possible that the video chipset is the Intel 845g chipset. I have the i845g in my Compaq workstation, and its not yet completely supported in X (or in the kernel for some of the other functions). You should be able to get it to work using VESA compatability mode. If you use a GUI to configure X, set the driver to "vesa". Or if you edit /etc/X11/XF86Config[-4] directly, try puttting the line: Driver "vesa" under Section "Device" . -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org