Anyone know how to boot into the live CD with the ATI commands I'm apparently missing? :x
Fatal Server Error: No Screens Found
I sure hope this is in the right section, I'd hate to get banned right off the bat
To sum it up: I can boot my BT3/4 Distro's off my Live CD's with ease on my desktop, just using startx.. But on my laptop, the only way I can get into BT is with VMware..
Once it loads I run
xconf
startx
//xconf gives an error
//startx leads to: Fatal Server Error: No Screens Found
There's a longer message, but I wasn't going to bother relaying it unless necessary.
Side note: I'm running on Corssfire ATI Readon x3870's, and I though searching I think it's involved with the problem -- but I'm note sure.
Again, I'm sorry if this is out of place -- and I did search the forums many times using the in-forum search as well as google/bing!
Thanks for any responses!
Anyone know how to boot into the live CD with the ATI commands I'm apparently missing? :x
Not really the right section as this is a BackTrack forum and not a linux help forumOriginally Posted by Kalantal
I sure hope this is in the right section, I'd hate to get banned right off the bat
All I needed to do was run startx. nothing else.. ie no xconf.
To sum it up: I can boot my BT3/4 Distro's off my Live CD's with ease on my desktop, just using startx.. But on my laptop, the only way I can get into BT is with VMware..
Once it loads I run
xconf
startx
//xconf gives an error
//startx leads to: Fatal Server Error: No Screens Found
There's a longer message, but I wasn't going to bother relaying it unless necessary.
Side note: I'm running on Corssfire ATI Readon x3870's, and I though searching I think it's involved with the problem -- but I'm note sure.
From here:Ubuntu Forums and here: Another Ubuntu Forum: I would venture that your hardware is not configured properly, or as you fear is not supported. I do not know how sparkling new your system is, and if it is the hottest model just out then the drivers may not be available quite yet, which I doubt as ATI used to have good *nix support, or is it that linux has good ATI support?
I found that forum linked above as the first Google result based upon the words you used in you post here. You have probably found your solution, but I am guessing that Linux is still very new to you. Please, read the Linux for n00bs sticky. That will give you a good foundation and starting point for linux.
I would have posted it in a linux forum, but this is a Backtrack only issue, which I resolved with simply running
fixvesa
startx
Even after I fixed the problem, I searched google and bing with every combo I could come up with involving ATI issues and found nothing, except for a post from a remote BT2 Help thread somewhere else on the internet, which had my solution.
Thanks anywho, R-E forum goers.
That error just happened to me. This fix worked. Thanks!I would have posted it in a linux forum, but this is a Backtrack only issue, which I resolved with simply running
fixvesa
startx
Even after I fixed the problem, I searched google and bing with every combo I could come up with involving ATI issues and found nothing, except for a post from a remote BT2 Help thread somewhere else on the internet, which had my solution.
Thanks anywho, R-E forum goers.
Glad to hear! =D
Me too. I've been searching everything and everywhere I could for about 48 hours.
Startx was launching fine off the Live CD for almost a week, then all of a sudden it stopped working. I hadn't changed anything that I knew of, and I had barely touched my windows (the OS on the hard drive). I didn't think any changes you made in the system stuck when you were using a Live CD.
Its not urgent anymore, but I'm curious what could have changed while running in a Live environment that could have thrown my gui off like that. Any ideas? Just brainstorming really.
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