Re: broken Xorg [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

On Jan 22, 2008 12:02 PM, Jimmy Wu <jimmywu013@gmail.com> wrote:
> Updates on the situation
> I've shrunk Vista and left it as the first partition on the HD. After
> looking around, I think that my laptop does not have a recovery
> partition, which is rather strange. There is no Rescue and Recovery
> ThinkVantage tool, or anything that says create recovery media at all.
>
> I went ahead and installed Debian anyway, using the netinstall CD, and
> the install process went fine (no error messages that I could see).
> However, xorg fails to start upon reboot. The xorg.conf is currently
> using the nv driver. In the end of log are the following lines:
>
> (EE) No Devices detected.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
> My graphics card is an nVidia Quadro NVS 140M, but lspci shows it as:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0429
>

Sorry, found the answer shortly after posting the question. The nv driver doesn't support the nVidia Quadro NVS 140M video card I had. Switching to vesa solved the problem.

Jimmy

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