[PLUG] FC 9 startx Problems

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Jun 17 15:12:44 UTC 2008


On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Bill Thoen wrote:

> I recently installed Fedora Core 9 and let it load everything for server
> and desktop. However the X11 server failed to start, so it booted up in
> text mode. When I tried startx I got this error:

> Fatal server error:
> no screens found

Bill,

   This is the first place to look: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (if Fedora puts
xorg.conf in that directory, otherwise where it's located.) In there you'll
find a screen section; mine's like this:

Section "Screen"
     Identifier     "Regular Screen"
     Device         "nVidia GeForce 6150"
     Monitor        "Acer LCD"
     DefaultDepth    24
     SubSection     "Display"
         Viewport    0 0
         Virtual     1440 900
         Depth       24
         Modes      "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768"
     EndSubSection
EndSection

   You also need the "Monitor" and "Device" Sections; be sure the names are
consistent among the Sections.

   Let us know what you find.

Rich

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