changed to xorg no screens found error

Liquidfork · 2005-01-11 23:49:32

Recently i changed to xorg, after going through their config and attempting to startx, i get Fatal error: no screens found. the monitor section of xorg.conf looks like this.

Secion "monitor"
Identifier "ViewSonic E70f" /i'm pretty sure thats the problem, but i dont' know what my identifier should be.
HorizSync 31.5-57.0
VertRefresh 50,150

EndSection

phrakture · 2005-01-12 01:07:13

Liquidfork wrote:

Recently i changed to xorg, after going through their config and attempting to startx, i get Fatal error: no screens found. the monitor section of xorg.conf looks like this.
Secion "monitor"
Identifier "ViewSonic E70f" /i'm pretty sure thats the problem, but i dont' know what my identifier should be.
HorizSync 31.5-57.0
VertRefresh 50,150
EndSection

Identifier is free-form... i could have

Identifier "My Big Fat Stupid Monitor"

if I wanted... your problem is the comma in the VertRefresh... switch it to a dash like HorizSync

neotuli · 2005-01-12 02:15:41

spelling "section" instead of "secion" also helps

Liquidfork · 2005-01-12 18:02:45

i fixed all that, the section part was just a typo on my part when writing it here. anyway i think my HorizSync is off. Don't have time to look into it now though.

phrakture · 2005-01-12 18:48:47

Liquidfork wrote:

i fixed all that, the section part was just a typo on my part when writing it here. anyway i think my HorizSync is off. Don't have time to look into it now though.

grab hwd from pacman (pacman -S hwd) and run it... it will detect your monitor settings for you to use

Liquidfork · 2005-01-12 20:14:23

ok, thanks for the hwd tip, but with all those correction i'm still getting the same problem! I wish i could just paste my xorg.conf log, that would be the most help but seeing as i have no access to the forums on the computer where the problem is, i can't help too much.

Edit: I am also getting

Undefined Monitor "ViewSonic E70f" referenced by Screen "Screen 1".

cmp · 2005-01-12 20:57:18

use hwd and then look for a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.hwd or something similar, when you just rename it, it should work
edit: run "hwd -s" - it created /etc/X11/xorg.conf.hwd for me

Liquidfork · 2005-01-12 22:37:25

cmp wrote:

use hwd and then look for a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.hwd or something similar, when you just rename it, it should work
edit: run "hwd -s" - it created /etc/X11/xorg.conf.hwd for me

that worked thankyou.

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#1 2005-01-11 23:49:32

changed to xorg no screens found error

#2 2005-01-12 01:07:13

Re: changed to xorg no screens found error

#3 2005-01-12 02:15:41

Re: changed to xorg no screens found error

#4 2005-01-12 18:02:45

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#5 2005-01-12 18:48:47

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#6 2005-01-12 20:14:23

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#7 2005-01-12 20:57:18

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#8 2005-01-12 22:37:25

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