If the system is on the net, can I log in and take a look?

Thanks
Niveditha

Chris Quenelle wrote:

> I spoke too soon.  I can't get it come up now.  When I start the 
> server in configure mode (using either
> X -configure or xorgcfg) the server doesn't make progress after 10 
> minutes or so.  If I truss it I only
> see setitimer/clock_gettime/pollsys and nothing else.  It looks like 
> the i810 driver is no longer
> recognizing my 82Q965 chipset.  It gets recognized when booting build 
> 106, but not when booting
> build 109.  I checked for related Xorg bugs on freedesktop.org, but 
> nothing jumped out at me.
>
> Does anyone have ideas for how to narrow this down more?  If I'm 
> running an unusual graphics
> device I can just go buy a cheapo card that's more mainstream.  What's 
> a good generic card for
> use with X.org, if I don't care about games or anything like that.  I 
> have a Sun 20.1 inch LCD
> with DVI and 1600x1200.  My primary selector would be that the drivers 
> for it don't break.  ;-)
>
> --chris
>
>
> Chris Quenelle wrote:
>
>>  John Martin wrote:
>>
>>> Chris Quenelle wrote:
>>>
>>>> It seems like it might be similar to 6811422, but I'm having trouble
>>>> with the workaround for that bug.
>>>
>>> It's not.  It is finding the primary device:
>>>
>>>  (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00 at 00:02:0
>>>
>>> The X server is using /etc/xorg.conf, not /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
>>> What is in /var/log/Xorg.0.log when you remove /etc/xorg.conf
>>> (and /etc/X11/xorg.conf if it exists).
>>
>>
>> Thanks, John!
>>
>> When I removed the config file, the server came up.  The guess about 
>> the screen
>> resolution wasn't right.  It doesn't let me choose 1280x1024.  I 
>> can't tell if that's
>> a problem with the screen device or the detected memory in the card.  
>> I guess I
>> have to learn a little more about constructing a custom xorg.conf file.
>>
>> I have an intel i810-style graphics device on the motherboard.
>>
>> --chris
>>
>>
>>
>


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