Problem...Hoary preview Live CD on Laptop

Mike mike at fissh.net
Sat Mar 12 08:30:35 UTC 2005


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:19:45 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 05:22:29PM +1300, Mike wrote:
> 
>> .. Been running Warty on this laptop (hybrid) since release and
>> everything is fine. Tried the Hoary live preview and everything seems
>> fine 'til it tries to "startX" then it fails with a message that
>> includes:
>> 
>> Can't start xserver.
>> No video bios modes for chosen depth.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The motherboard is intel with onboard video etc. 2.4 ghz processor, 1
>> gig ram
>> 
>> Just thought I'd mention it as I am Linux challenged and don't know how
>> to fix it :)
> 
> Please report a bug (Package: xserver-xorg), and attach the following
> files from the live CD:
> 
> - /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> - /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Thanks Matt... bug reported but for the life of me I cannot find those
files on the preview live CD... not even the folders you refer to. 

Mike






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