I have a new machine and am installing Debian Woody on it. Everthing
seems to be fine till I get to installing X and then I get the error:
(EE) No devices detected
According to the blurb on the box, the card I am using is a Sparkle
Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 128Mb DDR+TV and the part of the log file
/var/log/XFree86.0.log which refers to the video card is reproduced
below.
If you have an NVidia card, you need to install the debian packages for NVidia (only available from Sid/Unstable sources I believe) or get the NVidia installer from www.nvidia.com.
The debian NVidia packages you require are: nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-commonand if you have a stock debian kernel, you can also just download an nvidia kernel module for your kernel version. Otherwise you need to compile your own module using kernel headers or kernel source.
Johnny.