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yellowvehicle

Member

Registered: 2013-10-13

Posts: 4

[SOLVED] No screens found after installing xorg-server, drivers

Hi there,

I'm trying to install Xorg and eventually Gnome. I've installed these packages:

xorg-server
xorg-server-utils
xorg-apps
xorg-init

But

startx

produces:

(EE) Fatal server error: No screens found.

According to

lspci | grep VGA 

my graphics card is:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMT/ATI] Amethyst XT [Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition].

This is running on an iMac 5k. I'm OK with getting Arch to display less than 5k resolution if it comes to that.

I've installed the open source driver, xf86-video-ati.

In another post someone suggested running this command might shed some light on the situation:

$ ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
[no files]

Thank you for any help you can give - I'm very new to this!

Last edited by yellowvehicle (2015-08-10 00:42:45)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,952

Re: [SOLVED] No screens found after installing xorg-server, drivers

Is mesa installed ( pacman -Qs mesa ) ?

please post var/log/xorg.0.log .

Also check the arch wiki pages for Xorg and Xinitrc .

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yellowvehicle

Member

Registered: 2013-10-13

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] No screens found after installing xorg-server, drivers

I managed to solve this by reinstalling the drivers and installing mesa (and rebooting). Thank you for the help!