Driver can't Support Depth 24 Error - Need help

[Blueberry]

Hi all, I'm very new to linux and plan on building a mail server but for now all I want to do is have a working debian installing on my home pc with a desktop environment. I'm using Debian Sarge and the installation went well but after using base-config to install the 'desktop environment' I get this error:

(EE) (VGA:0) Driver can't support depth 24
Screens found, but none have a usable configuration

I have a Geforce FX5200
Have tried changing the depth using fx86config but I continue to get the same error.

Would appreciate any help, I'm a real new user so asking the obvious is fine.

[Blueberry]

After 5 hours of working on this, I've got things working after using:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

and selecting a different driver.
The depth is only 8 and every looks pretty bad but it's working and onto a starting point here

[antidrugue]

(EE) (VGA:0) Driver can't support depth 24
Screens found, but none have a usable configuration

I have a Geforce FX5200

This is one of the most Linux friendly video cards out there. With the proper driver, it can support 24 bit colors no problem.

Just run :

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

and choose nv as the driver, and 16 (or 24 if you want to, but it will be slower) color depth.

If that doesn't do it, then just install the latest NVIDIA proprietary driver, using those instructions :
http://technowizah.com/2006/11/debia...a-drivers.html

[Blueberry]

Thanks for the help, can you tell me where to find out the 'video card bus identifier' for the card?

[antidrugue]

Thanks for the help, can you tell me where to find out the 'video card bus identifier' for the card?

That is completely optional : you can leave this field blank.

But if you want to know, the output of

lspci | grep -i vga

will tell you.

For example, this output :

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)

Means that the bus id is 0:2:0 :

BusID "PCI:0:2:0"

[Blueberry]

Thanks for the help, I entered PCI:1:0:0 which worked
I'll run that code to double check anyway

I'm now running at 24, feels great
Been wanting to use linux for at least the last 2 years ...
thought I'd come into a lot more trouble.

... Although now I want to set up a mail server