From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0Wzt-0002Sd-BP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 04:06:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7444qKU024451; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 04:04:52 GMT Received: from fep2.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j743xqIQ007138 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 03:59:53 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.100] (d36-7-237.home1.cgocable.net [24.36.7.237]) by fep2.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142001C65 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 00:00:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42F192D5.7040501@interlynx.net> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:00:21 -0400 From: "C.Beamer" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install References: <42F16928.1040606@interlynx.net> <558b73fb050803184537d30df2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <558b73fb050803184537d30df2@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e3ed9765-9260-4449-88cf-7a17164c6220 X-Archives-Hash: 054bfe2429eb20e49fd9480da118716e Hi Michael et al, Michael Crute wrote: > Colleen, > Glad to see another Fedora user see the light! Here's the scoop... you > haven't botched anything you just need to configure your X server. In > theory it is very easy to configure your X server all you need to do > is run "Xorg --configure" as root then copy the xorg config file from > /root/xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and startx again. I was hopeful here. I did as outlined and after running Xorg -configure, the file /root.xorg.conf.new was produced. I got a message stating how to test the xserver. And I still couldn't start x. It's complaining a bit less than it did before, but I'm still getting these lines of error messages: > (EE) GARTinit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (no such file or directory) > (EE)I810(0) AGPGART support is not available. Make sure your > kernel has > agpgart support or that the agpgart kernel module is loaded > (EE)Screens found, but non have useable configuration > Fatal server error: > no screens found > If I need to reconfigure the kernel, fine. However, I need to be told specifically what to do. To refresh, this is my graphics/video info: Graphics integrated into the system board into the system board: - an Intel i810 chip. Specifics: Integrated Intel Direct AGP Graphics Accelerator with Dynamic Video Memory (DVM) technology architecture. Other details are as follows (I provide this in case it is thought that I should have installed an extra kernel module): Graphics architecture: Intel Dynamic Video Memory (DVM) technology Graphics accelerator: Intel Direct Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) 2D and 3D graphics accelerator Display cache: 4 MB, 100-MHz synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) Graphics memory: Dynamically assigned from system memory Video resolutions 800 x 600 pixels; 85 hertz (Hz) refresh rate with 16.7 million colors 1024 x 786 pixels; 85 Hz refresh rate with 64,000 colors 1280 x 1024 pixels; 85 Hz refresh rate with 256 colors 1600 x 1200 pixels 75 Hz refresh rate with 256 colors The computer is a Dell Optiplex GX100 and the monitor is a Dell E551, Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list