Michael R Zucca wrote:
> 
> >       I've been playing with X for awhile and still have not gotten it
> > to recognize my monitor... it gives the 'Can't run X without any screens!'
> > error and dies. I saw on the supported machines list that 1bit video IS
> > supported on the Q630.... but is that internal video, or will I need a
> 
> Well, if you're booting with your console on internal video then there's
> no reason why X can't run on internal video. However, if it says
> Can't run X without any screens it either means you haven't built all
> the grf devices (you need /dev/grf0 and /dev/grf1) or there's a
> slight kernel bug and the grf driver is not reporting the screen
> base correctly. THe first problem you can fix yourself by checking
> and making the grf device nodes. The other one obviously requires some
> kernel hacking.

I first reported months ago that my Centris 650/internal video could not
run X or dt with these exact symptoms. I have the /dev/grf0 and /dev/grf1
devices, but neither ite or grf is ever initialized in the boot process
(by which I mean no message about them ever appears). The console works
fine, however, apart from the fact that the console terminal emulation
is completely broken in the standard distribution.

My solution was to take the easy way out and just fix the terminal
emulation in ite.c and use the console, rather than trying to solve the
problem of ite and grf not being set up properly.