On 9/9/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the detailed suggestions - too late tonight to experiment, so will do so Monday and report back.
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 10:19:10PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > New etch installation on box with builtin video Intel 845. > > > > This is a fresh etch install, i386, 2004 hardware. See DETAILED > > NOTES below for hardware notes, xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log. > > > > Does anyone have X working on one of these builtin Intel 845 chipsets? > > yep. In fact I think I have a 845G Brookdale running in sid right now > and it worked fine in etch, but my monitor wasn't supported, hence the > upgrade to sid. > > > > > I have tried the following changes to xorg.conf: > > > > - no DRI > > - no DRI and no glx > > - no "Modes" lines > > - use "vesa" instead of "i810" > > i810 is being replaced by intel, so fix up your xorg.conf to reflect > intel instead, but that's not your problem here. > > > > > > > Finally, I installed testing versions of xserver-xorg and > > xserver-xorg-video-i810. Still can't get X to start, although now I > > get that special "click" sound when it tries to start. > > the log you included doesn't look like the log of a failed X > session. What exactly happens, other than the magical "click" when the > monitor changes modes? Do you end up back at a VT? do you get a > garbled or black screen? details! > > one note from the logs, it is selecting an initial resolution of > 1920x1200. Does your monitor really support that? it looks like a > hitachi from 1996, and I'd be surprised. I'm guessing that you're > getting a bad mode setting that's not compatible with your monitor. > > try ctrl-alt-keypad'-' or keypad'+' and see if you can toggle your way > into a different mode. > > > > > Any ideas? What can I try? > > the new intel drivers do a fairly decent job of guessing all the > details about your setup. > > I would clean up the xorg.conf by getting rid of all the SubSection > "Display" lines and the VideoRam lines. This would prevent xorg from > trying to second guess what the drivers are telling it. Also, have you > done a good dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg? > > A > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFG5LzPaIeIEqwil4YRAm03AJwKXFevE1zSK+LVOyQxWaAzZPtFcQCfeeo4 > UQqzkG+DsLHToYHwFaCp2ms= > =HcIM > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Gordon Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
