On Sun, 2015-08-02 at 15:46 -0700, ydld1pw02@sneakemail.com wrote: > Last Friday I used aptitude to update the software on my old Dell > Precision Workstation 340, which is running Debian's testing > distribution. After the update completed, I rebooted and X Server > failed to start. At the end of /var/log/Xorg.0.log (attached) I see > > the following error messages: > > [ 1627.901] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable > configuration. > [ 1627.901] (EE) > Fatal server error: > [ 1627.901] (EE) no screens found(EE) > [ 1627.901] (EE) > > According to lspci, I have the following video card > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. > [AMD/ATI] Rage 128 PRO Ultra AGP 4x > and it is attached to a UltraSharp U2410 (24 inch LCD display). > Before > the software update, the X Server was working fine, driving the > display > at 1920x1200. I don't have an xorg.conf, although after doing some > search to try to diagnose the problem and find a solution I ran "Xorg > > -configure" to create one, and tried tweeking it to get the X Server > working, but was failed. > > Any help diagnosing the problem and finding a solution would be > appreciated. > > - Peter Canning Testing does break from time to time, so no surprises there. There are a couple of other warnings and errors earlier in the log (grep for EE and WW) but I'm not sure if that is what's causing problems. You might want to check your logs and see exactly what packages were upgraded, check if there are any known regressions and maybe even downgrade. Did you also upgrade the kernel? If so, try using the older kernel. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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