No more X - please

Hello,

I have a laptop with SUSE 11.1 on it for well over a year now. I came home from the office and I get a black screen with a logon.

I can logon fine as root or user but in both cases when I try ‘startx’ I get the result below.

I can see the error ‘No valid modes’ but Idon’t know how to fix it. Would trying to run the original disk using fix errors help?

Any assistance would be helpful.

Thank you,
Kevin

xauth: creating new authority file /home/kevin/.serverauth.3889

X.Org X Server 1.5.2
Release Date: 10 October 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX
Current Operating System: Linux KS_Laptop 2.6.27.23-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-05-06 17:02:05 -0400 x86_64
Build Date: 27 February 2009 01:56:35PM

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Module Loader present
Markers: (–) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from comand line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: “/var/log/Xorg.0.log”, Time: Fri Nov 13 16:54:43 2009
(==) Using config file: “/etc/X11/xorg.conf”
(EE) intel(0): No Valid modes.
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

I’d speculate that something went wrong either (a) with your xorg.conf file (easier to fix) or (b) with the EDID communications between the display and the driver, which may well be a screen hardware problem.

You could try, as root in the command prompt:

  1. backup your /etc/xorg.conf file;

  2. run “sax2 -r -m 0=(drivername>”, where <drivername> is the one adequate to your intel GPU (don’t know exactly) or vesa, to get basic functionality.