no X on new Dell with Radeon X600 card

Laura Conrad lconrad at laymusic.org
Mon Jul 17 15:39:40 UTC 2006


>>>>> "Ken" == Ken N9VV <n9vv at sbcglobal.net> writes:

    Ken> Anyone have a suggestion about why X11 won't recognize my
    Ken> brand new Dell with a 256MB Radeon X600 card?

    Ken> I tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-org and followed all the
    Ken> selections. Everything looks o.k. The LiveCD boots fine and X
    Ken> runs on it and on Helix.

    Ken> any suggestions?  

I don't know anything about that particular problem, but when I've had
systems where a live CD worked and the installed CD didn't, I've
sometimes just saved the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file from the Live CD and
dropped in onto the installed system.  Back up the non-working one
before you do this.

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