Hello,
Yesterday I spontaneously decided to leave WinXP behind, and I burned
a Gentoo ISO and installed it. It took me all night, being that I'm
not experienced with these things, but here I am. The next thing I did
was emerge X and KDE, as I wanted a windowing system, and this is
where my problem begins.
I used the config generator to acquire my xorg.conf ("X -config" if I
remember correctly) and when I tested everything was fine: the curso
was there, the background was there, it worked. But when I used
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to exit, my screen went into what I've come to call
a "color fit": sporadic colors asserted themselves across my screen in
an equally sporadic manner. I was forced to reboot and try again,
after which I discovered that if I wanted to get to this
non-functional colored nonsense more *quickly*, I could just type
"startx". At this point I went to #gentoo on freenode for help.
Many people were willing to help, but I didn't get anywhere. Everyone
had their own opinion on what I needed to do to fix the situation, and
most of them had to do with my xorg.conf. No matter what I changed,
however, I always got those crazy colors. At one point someone told me
that my chipset, the Intel 82845, was notorious for having trouble
with X, and another referred me to the XFree86 documentation. I
eventually found the page for the driver my graphics card uses (i810),
and I did my best to apply the necessary changes
(http://xfree86.org/4.4.0/i810.4.html), but to no avail. You can see
my xorg.conf here, where I've just now uploaded it:
http://heureusement.org/other/xorg.conf
This is rather important to me, as the programs I work on depend on a
graphical user interface, and I need a windowing system to have any
sort of productivity. The last thing I want to do is go back.
Thank you,
Daniel Bickett
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