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[Linux Xorg] AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:55 pm
by gilthanaz
[Problem]
After configuring /etc/X11/xorg.conf and trying X --configure, the X server still won't come up. The error message is

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AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
- which would point out to a wrong driver or the likes.

[Solution]
After i tried pretty much everything else and even wrote an xorg.conf file by hand, i finally found the problem: The ob-board ATI R200 Graphics had too little RAM assigned! I changed the RAM from 16 to 32MB, and voilá - starts up like everything was okay to begin with.