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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
