Help with installing XFree86

[Comrade]

I'm trying to (eventually) get kde to work for the Linux installation that I have. Of course, in order to do this, I need to have either XFree86 or Xorg installed. I'm trying to get it to work with XFree86, however, it is not working. The thing gives an error, saying "no screens found".

My video card is a Diamond Viper ATI Radeon 9600XT, so I used radeon as the driver. Unfortunately, the card is not recognized. It's not an outdated card; it's just not mainstream. What should I do to remedy this malaise? Which driver, etc.

I'm not entirely sure how to post the results of an unsuccessful startx here. If someone can help me get a GUI to run under Linux, I would be very grateful.

[steve_d555]

Okay, first off don't go with Xfree86. Xorg is a split from an earlier version and is much, much better. Then after installing either (Xorg preferably) download the latest ATI drivers from their website and install them. Then run fglrxconfig, answer all the questions and then copy or your xf86config file to xorg.conf. Then you can try startx. It should start a twm session. Then you can install kde.
Also just wondering what distro are you using? Cause if its debian-based you can use apt-get or gentoo-based use emerge.

[Comrade]

I'm using Debian. And I am unable to get the network connection to work under Linux.

Perhaps you could help me with getting the internet to work with Linux as well.

It recognizes the card and everything, and I checked the /etc/network/interfaces file, and it looks correct. What could be the problem?

Sorry, I'm new to this Linux business.

[aquila]

I'm using Debian. And I am unable to get the network connection to work under Linux.

Perhaps you could help me with getting the internet to work with Linux as well.

It recognizes the card and everything, and I checked the /etc/network/interfaces file, and it looks correct. What could be the problem?

Sorry, I'm new to this Linux business.

How are you connected to your ISP: with DHCP, pppoe, ...?
What does the ifconfig command display?
What type of network card are you using? Is it detected by the kernel (check the output of dmesg)?

[Comrade]

The network card is detected, and I'm using DHCP.

I'll check the output of ifconfig; I haven't done that yet.

Here is what my /etc/network/interfaces looks like:
#/etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

[rob]

Yes, do ifconfig and paste the results, as well as:

cat /etc/resolv.conf

Rob

[Comrade]

ifconfig:
lo Link encap Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MMTU:16436 Metric: 1
RX Packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX Packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
/etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp

/etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 151.197.0.38
nameserver 151.197.0.39

ipconfig /all on Windows XP:

Windows IP Configuration



Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : presario

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No



Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:



Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Linksys Wireless-G USB Network Adapter #4

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0F-66-71-54-70

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.100

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 151.197.0.38

151.197.0.39

Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, June 12, 2005 10:27:28 AM

Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Monday, June 13, 2005 10:27:28 AM

[rob]

All of your files look OK. Can you ping a site? Try:

ping rubyforums.com

Do you get a response? If not, how about just pinging an IP, like:

ping 216.109.112.135

Let us know,

Rob

[Comrade]

No, the ping doesn't work.

I'm thinking that I configured one of the files incorrectly, and I'm fairly sure the error is in the name servers.

[aquila]

Did you start your DHCP client? Normally this will work:
dhclient eth0
If that doesn't work try running
/etc/init.d/network restart
to apply your new network settings.

[rob]

The error could be in the nameservers, but if you can't ping the numeric IP, you've got bigger problems.

Try pinging your gateway. If you can't ping that, then you know for sure there's a network layer issue, and not an issue with name resolution.

[steve_d555]

I don't think eth0 is up. If you want to do it manually try doing
ifconfig eth0 up
dhclient eth0
That should work