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From: Two Ravens on 14 Oct 2009 10:18
As my subscription disk arrived in the UK last week I set about installing
13. which caused two interesting problems.

I had to have a new computer built in February, (as the previous one died),
it has An ASUS M2N68-VM motherboard with an AMDAthlon 64 7750 Dual
processor, with two hard drives each of which has a swap partition, a root
partition, and an Archive partition available to both root partitions,
Archive_A on /dev/hda, and Archive _B on /dev/hdb, (If one hard drive dies
then the archive is still available on the other root partition). I
installed 13 on /dev/hdb5, the larger of the two hard drives, upon booting
into it I was presented with the following error message, "Fatal Server
Error No Screens Found" additional information told me that there was no,
xinit, no xinit file, no xinit directory, no xinit process. I then booted
back into slackware 12.2 to ask for advice and found that I could no longer
connect to the internet, after some investigation I discovered that my
laptop would work using the same port and cable to the router, but the
computer could connect to the router, I turned the computer off at the
mains to investigate its guts, found nothing obviously disconnected and
turned it on agai at which point 12.2 again connected to the internet.

this is what lspci -k gives me:
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 ISA Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP67 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller
(rev a2)
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
Kernel modules: ohci-hcd
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller
(rev a2)
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller
(rev a2)
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
Kernel modules: ohci-hcd
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller
(rev a2)
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP67 IDE Controller (rev a1)
Kernel driver in use: AMD_IDE
Kernel modules: pata_amd
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP67 High Definition Audio (rev
a1)
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP67 AHCI Controller (rev a2)
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Ethernet (rev a2)
Kernel driver in use: forcedeth
Kernel modules: forcedeth
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:0f.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:11.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7050 PV /
nForce 630a (rev a2)
Kernel modules: nvidiafb
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron,
Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron,
Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron,
Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller

I would appreciate any suggestions.
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Two Ravens
"...hit the squirrel..."
From: Henrik Carlqvist on 14 Oct 2009 13:58
Two Ravens <two-ravens(a)operamail.org> wrote:
> I installed 13 on /dev/hdb5, the larger of the two hard drives, upon
> booting into it I was presented with the following error message, "Fatal
> Server Error No Screens Found"

That error message comes from the X server (X.org) when it isn't correctly
configured. So it seems that you haven't only installed Slackware, but
also modified the startup files or changed the default runlevel to start X
at boot? It also seems as if you have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf which doesn't
match your hardware.

> I then booted back into slackware 12.2 to ask for advice and found that
> I could no longer connect to the internet, after some investigation I
> discovered that my laptop would work using the same port and cable to
> the router, but the computer could connect to the router, I turned the
> computer off at the mains to investigate its guts, found nothing
> obviously disconnected and turned it on agai at which point 12.2 again
> connected to the internet.

As I don't know anything about your settings (dhcp? static IP? internet
connection?) I can't help you there. However, as things are working we
might be able to assume that it was only some temporary error with your
ISP.

> 00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7050 PV /
> nForce 630a (rev a2)
> Kernel modules: nvidiafb

It seems to me you should be using the nv driver in xorg.conf. It might
also be easier to configure your system without fb, put "vga=normal" in
/etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo. Also make sure that if xorg.conf contains
any lines containing refresh rates or resolutions that those values really
match your monitor.

If you still can't get X to work you might find more useful information in
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

regards Henrik
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From: Two Ravens on 16 Oct 2009 02:33
Henrik Carlqvist wrote:Henrik.Carlqvist(a)deadspam.com:Wednesday 14 Oct 2009
18:58:<pan.2009.10.14.17.58.39.241038(a)deadspam.com>

> That error message comes from the X server (X.org) when it isn't correctly
> configured. So it seems that you haven't only installed Slackware, but
> also modified the startup files or changed the default runlevel to start X
> at boot? It also seems as if you have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf which doesn't
> match your hardware.

Thank you for your answer, unfortunately I was out all day yesterday and am
at a conference over the weekend, I will not be able to try to resolve any
problems until Monday.
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Two Ravens
"...hit the squirrel..."
From: john on 16 Oct 2009 10:18
On Oct 16, 2:33 am, Two Ravens <two-rav...(a)operamail.org> wrote:
> Henrik Carlqvist wrote:Henrik.Carlqv...(a)deadspam.com:Wednesday 14 Oct 2009
>
> 18:58:<pan.2009.10.14.17.58.39.241...(a)deadspam.com>
>
> > That error message comes from the X server (X.org) when it isn't correctly
> > configured. So it seems that you haven't only installed Slackware, but
> > also modified the startup files or changed the default runlevel to start X
> > at boot? It also seems as if you have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf which doesn't
> > match your hardware.
>
> Thank you for your answer, unfortunately I was out all day yesterday and am
> at a conference over the weekend, I will not be able to try to resolve any
> problems until Monday.
> --
> Two Ravens
> "...hit the squirrel..."

When I went from 12.2 to 13.0 I used the xorg.conf from 12.2 on the
same machine.
This gave me added functionality such as zoom from 2048x1024 to
640x480 and
stations in between. My monitor is capable of even higher resolutions
but the video chip isn't.

One of the minor mysteries of recent versions of Slack and other
distros is
why xorg.conf was more or less abandoned. But happily it still works
fine.

John C.
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