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. > >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 > > Hi, Beside reconfiguring the kernel you could try booting with some live-CD (Knoppix worked for me) and just copy its config "XFree86.conf" ---> "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" and try booting X. Later it's easier just to change any parameters having some working base. For a kernel-config see the links to Gentoo's documentation posted previously on this thread. HTH. Rumen
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