floppy drive and Xwindows?

[lombardp]

Floppy question:

I don't know if this is a linux problem or not, but my floppy drive has suddenly gone from a floppy drive to a removable disk drive. I'm running win98 and Mandrake 7.2. On both I can't access any disks put into it. When my computer starts up I get this message that says "The following configurations were updated: Diskette Drives" or something similar to that. I went into my BIOS and the floppy drive was disabled and I enabled it. I got the same problem when I restarted my computer. The error I get in linux is:

floppy0: floppy timeout called
FAT bread failed
floppy: Input/Output error.


Xwindows question:

I'm not sure if these problems are similar or not but when I log onto my machine under the console mode I type startx to go to xwindows. I get the following error message:

Fatal server error:
no screens found

When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file "var/log/XFree86.0.log".

X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

Here is a link to a copy of the XFree86.0.log:
http://www.shockeddesigns.com/~pat/XFree86.0.log

I really have no idea what happened. I swear my computer worked one minute, I took it home over the weekend and now it doesn't work. Really odd. Anyone have any ideas?

Pat

[bdg1983]

For the floppy, check the connections for the drive. Ribbon cable and power.

I'm certainly not a expert on X, but I had a look at your error log and the only (EE) line I saw was

(EE) I810(0): Given depth (15) is not supported by i810 driver

You will need to reconfigure X to not use a colordepth of 15. Not sure of what to use for Xfree4.

[lombardp]

That worked great on Xwindows! Thanks so much. I think I have to call compaq before I go about opening up my case to check the cables. I'm under this warranty, someone may actually have to drive all the way out here just to do that. :D


Thanks again.
Pat