"startx dosent work anymore debian 2.4 "
 

hello , i have a problem with my gui . i have I810 onboard graphics . it says something like ( agpgart not there ) celeron 633mhz
old machine 256 mg ram 20gb master and 7 gb slave . first drive is debian 2.4 and slave is winxp . i also have a lt winmodem i would like to get goin . i cant seem to figure out how to mount the floppy . i tried vi /etc/fstab but cant figure out the lingo .when i loaded it before i had everything working ,kde , floppy ,sound, but no modem .im totally stuck in command line (witch is fun ), because my cdrom went out so i cant just reload debian. i hope this makes some kind of sense to someone .



pardon the bad grammer
-martianoffmars-
p.s. mount says unknown filesystem type ?,for anything i try to mount

That's a problem all right ;-).
That is a very old box. Try 'modprobe agpgart' before you try starting X Watch for the error it shows. Also try lspci - here's mine
bash-4.1$ sudo lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 741/741GX/M741 Host (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV730 Pro AGP [Radeon HD 4600 Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730

I DO have an agp bus, and you can see the bus number is different (on the very left) for the VGA controller on agp, and it's integral hdmi device (which keeps wanting to be the main soundcard!). What does yours show? You may not actually have an agp bus.

Debian 2.4?!?!?!? Please tell me this is a typo.
jdk

pardon me its debian 2.6.18-6-686 kde ver 3.5.5
i will try the suggestion thank you


-martianoff mars-

For the record 2.6.18 is not a version of Debian but rather a kernel version. It is VERY old. You might want to update it to at least 2.6.26 (I think Lenny is running this now) unless there is a compelling reason not to.
ciao,
jdk

What does lspci show?
try cat /proc/filesystems
That shows the different types of filesystems your kernel can mount. Then it's
mount -t filesystem_type /dev/somedisk /somewhere (usually in /mnt/ or /media)