Problem with X

eprevost, was adding "xdrvr=chips" the solution to your problem? You didn't state what the problem is that you are having: no display, some display, too big, too small, what?

Please clarify and we'll be happy to offer help if you need it

Jon

If I juste put in the CD and boot, I only get the text-mode login prompt, and XF86Config-4 is not complete (section for graphic card is missing).

If I boot with xdrvr=chips, then I get the graphic login prompt, and can use the KDE environment.

I think I saw an error message during boot-up about X configuration. I'll check it again, and come back with the message.

Hardware: AMD 3200+ processor, XFX Nvidia 6600 PCI-e display adapter

Using Mepis 3.3.1-1 everything works fine. When I went to update to 3.3.1-2.test3, after the point in the boot sequence for

Starting K Display Manager: kdm

the KDE GUI fails to load, the next line is

MEPIS Linux testing/unstable mepis1 tty1

and I'm put back at the prompt

mepis1 login:

There is no obvious error message. If I logon as root then try to start the KDE desktop with the command startkde, I get

xsetroot: Unable to open display ''
startkde: Starting up ...
ksplash: cannot connect to X server
kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set
startkde: Shutting down ...

etc

I tried adding xdrvr=chips to the boot command, but this did not change anything for me.

thanks

try xdrvr=vesa
also make sure the CD is a good burn (for checking the download use MD5Sum, burn the CD on a CDR (not CDRW) at slow speed)

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Adding xdrvr=vesa to the boot options solved the problem, thank you. I will also try burning a new CD.