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 1E0f3m-0005Ja-Nb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:42:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j74CfNtS008464; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:41:23 GMT Received: from smtp108.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp108.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.6]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j74Cbjqh021095 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:37:46 GMT Received: (qmail 13171 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2005 12:38:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.4?) (richard?j?fish@68.230.66.148 with plain) by smtp108.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Aug 2005 12:38:25 -0000 Message-ID: <42F209E5.8040602@asmallpond.org> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 14:28:21 +0200 From: Richard Fish User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050723) 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> <42F192D5.7040501@interlynx.net> In-Reply-To: <42F192D5.7040501@interlynx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2422e094-7d0d-4ea5-81ed-c3ab656bb034 X-Archives-Hash: daac96fa82e219b19b897d92885dc4a5 C.Beamer wrote: >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. > > Yes, I think this is what you need to do. From the documentation for the i810 X driver (man i810), it seems that agp or agpgart are required for your graphics architecture. Normally you can check your current kernel configuration with 'zcat /proc/config.gz | grep AGP'. That should have "CONFIG_AGP=y" and "CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y". If you have them, but they are '=m', then you should just need to "modprobe intel-agp" and try starting X again. Long term you can add intel-agp to /etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.6 to get it loaded automatically at system startup. If they are not set, then you need to configure/build a new kernel. You'll find the AGP configuration options under "Device Drivers->Character Devices" in menuconfig or xconfig. If you haven't built a kernel before, or if you want some more guidance here, feel free to ask. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list