failed to start X server (Ubuntu 5.10)

[Frank McCormick]

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On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:31:39 -0500
Lee Slowick <lees93 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is my first install of Ubuntu and the entire install seemed to go fine, 
> but at the end and now when I reboot and it tries to start the GUI I get a 
> error.
> 
> "Failed to start X server... It is likely that it is not setup correctly..."
> 
> I viewed the log file and two things stood out:
> 
> (EE) No devices detected.
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> 
> It then give me a option the view the detailed X server output .
> 
> I see it sees my Matrox video card, but at the end it give me the save error 
> messages as above.
> 
> Can anyone help and give me a idea on what the problem might be and how to 
> fix it?



   Its been a while since I did this but try:   dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

   Answer the questions and that may fix it
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Cheers

Frank

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