Yea, the title pretty much describes it. If I try to do default depth 24 it says no screen found. If i try default depth 8 it'll just go to 640x480. And when it's at depth 4 the colors look really funky. I'm on a Dell Dimension 3000

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/prod...=19&l=en&s=dhs

specs there, i got a 15inch flat screen.

intel i810 is my graphics card. I've been messing with xorgconfig for days now.
here's my xorg.conf

thanks for all the help in advance.

You probably shouldn't have 2 Subsection "Display"s with Depth 24. And you don't have Depth 8 or 4 defined. Try changing the final Subsection to "Depth 8" and see how that works. (and maybe add a "1024x768" mode to it).

Alright, I did it..no luck.

here's what it's looking like now:

wow, i've messed with xorg.conf about every way i could and no luck

That's very strange. Do you get any warnings before the fatal error?

I don't get a fatal error anymore unless i try to make the xorg.conf using xorgconfig, the only problem is - no matter what - it will not start into depth 24, I even erased all other depth's and had default depth 24 and it just wont take it. I know the montior and card can have it because it works fine on windows ;x.

It probably will not help you but you do not seem to have an EndSubsection between depth 4 & 8. You may also like to add into the post the the driver the video is using.

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0

<--------- EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection


EndSection

thanks, but nope, didn't help. here's what my xorg.conf is looking like now:

[quote]
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "xtrap"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "i810"
VendorName "Intel Corp."
BoardName "82865G Integrated Graphics Device"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection


EndSection

help?

Check the intel website for drivers. The i810 driver is (to my knowledge) not the best one for a 82865G Integrated Graphics Device.

Graphics Drivers and Linux* Support

Since it is a Dell system, I would give this a try:

Go into BIOS setup and check the setting for Video memory. On my Dell, this was set to 1MB, which is not enough for this resolution. When I set it to 8MB, everything went fine.

Good luck!

dude, you are the best! Now it works perfectly, thanks a ton man! You'd think dell would say something about this but nope =\.

thanks again!