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Hi all
I've been stuck on this one all day - crawling through forum post, wikis and google! I still can't get it fixed, so I hope that someone could either point me in the right direction or give me a few hints...
I'm installing Arch as per the Beginner's Guide wiki. I'm using a pretty old machine. If I run lspci then the video card seems to be an S3 Unichrome Pro (CN400/PM800/PM880/PN800/PN880).
I got to running 'startx' and it failed, so I ran 'grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log' and this came out:
(EE) UNICHROME(0): No active output found.
(EE) UNICHROME(0): No outputs possible.
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration
'startx' always ends up with 'Fatal server error: no screens found'.
I've tried the solutions posted up in older posts, with no joy so far. I'd be grateful for any advice!
Thanks!
custard.
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which video drivers have you installed?
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I've stalled the xf86-video-unichrome driver, though I think xf86-video-vesa came along with the xorg install too.
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I have never used that graphics card myself, but this is what you get with
pacman -Ss s3
extra/savage-dri 7.9-1
Mesa DRI drivers for S3 Sraphics/VIA Savage
extra/unichrome-dri 7.9-1
Mesa DRI drivers for S3 Graphics/VIA Unichrome
extra/xf86-video-s3 0.6.3-3 (xorg-video-drivers)
X.org S3 video driver
extra/xf86-video-s3virge 1.10.4-3 (xorg-video-drivers)
X.org S3 Virge video driver
The Beginners' Guide also mentions
xf86-video-openchrome — VIA/S3G UniChrome, UniChrome Pro and Chrome9 video driver
I can't help you directly but maybe you want to try one of these packages.
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Thanks for your help. I've tried the Openchrome driver with no luck, I'll check out the S3 and S3virge drivers.
**Just gave them a spin, and no luck there either. I'll keep trying different drivers, if anyone has any other ideas for possible solutions, please let me know
custard.
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X/video-driver don't always get the correct capabilities of your vdu - you may want a partial xorg.conf where you set modes manually ... and disable modeset in the kernel invocation line in grub.
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I have a laptop with an S3 UniChrome Pro adapter:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M80
It works for me with the OpenChrome adapter. I had to explicitly set the display size:
/etc/xorg.conf.d/15-openchrome.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "via-adapter"
Driver "openchrome"
Option "PanelSize" "1280x800"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "My laptop screen"
Monitor "My laptop panel"
Device "Configured video device"
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 1280 800
EndSubSection
EndSection
Test with a basic window manager+xterm in your .xinitrc to make sure a desktop environment is not interfering with the pure xorg settings.
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