Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install

[Michael Crute <mcrute@gmail.com>]

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Indeed... that was what I needed every time. Try Bob's trick. I don't run 
craptel hardware (been burned too many times) so perhaps I2C IS required for 
their junk. Try to reconfigure the kernel per Bob's directions and see if 
that fixes things.

-Mike

On 8/4/05, C.Beamer <cbeamer@interlynx.net> 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.
> 
> 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
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> 
> 


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