Daniel Bickett wrote:
> 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.
Just so I understand, does the color corruption happen when X is
running, or only when you switch back to a console?
> 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
FYI, the x.org documentation is at:
http://www.x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/i810.4.html
The one thing that seems a bit strange to me from your xorg.conf is:
VideoRam 32000 # 32 megs in kb
It seems to me this value should really be '32768'.
The other setting in the device section that may be likely to help would be:
Option "NoAccel" "on"
Finally, I'd like to see the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
-Richard
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