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cant seem to get x up and running

my problem is that when i log in to my fresh slack 12 install and type startx it starts to load up but i dont see anything and the little green light on my monitor flicks on and off, no biggy i think to myself must just have the refresh rates wrong or something... so a quick reconfigure of xorg.conf and try it again same thing. upon looking over the xorg.0.log i find three errors...

Code:

Unable to read from DVOI2C_E slave 112

Unable to read from DVOI2C_E slave 236

I830 vblank pipe setup failed

i also remember it spitting out another error upon trying to load x the very first time... something like "screens found but none usable" or something cant seem to get that one to come back. it definitely wants to load x because i have to ctl-alt-bckspc to get back to console, it doesnt stop itself and spit me back there. here is my xorg.conf file minus the sections that i deemed irrelevant:

Code:

section "module"

load "dbe"

subsection "extmod"

option "omite xfree86-dga"

endsubsection

load "freetype"

load "glx"

#load "dri"

#load "xtt"

#load "type1"

endsection



Section "monitor"

identifier "my monitor"

horizsync 30-62

vertrefresh 50-75

endsection



Section "device"

identifier "mycard"

driver "i810"

#videoram "65536"

endsection



section "screen"

identifier "screen1"

device "mycard"

monitor "my monitor"

defaultdepth 24

.

.

.

.

.

endsection



section "serverlayout"

identifier "simplelayout"

screen "screen1"

P.S. i can get x to work in backtrack 2.0 by just running xconf at login, but it only lets me have 640x480 resolution.

It sounds like the monitor is going out of sync do to incorrect horizsync and/or vertrefresh settings. Does it work with the vesa driver?

did you run xorgconfig before starting x?

the vert refresh and horiz sync for my monitor an impression 5ls took me about 2 hours to find on the net, and im pretty sure that they are correct; but i could be wrong. and for xconfig before starting x yes, i did that. upon trying to use vesa i get the error

Code:

vesa(0) no matching modes

screens found, but none have a usable configuration

thanks for the replies greatly appreciated.

well after everything ive tried still nothing... but it is not my graphics card or anything like that it is definitely the monitor and its sync ranges; because i plugged in a monitor from my other box and it worked just fine. the only problem is i cant switch the 2 because the other machine uses slack as well. think im just going to buy a new monitor, not too fond of this one anyway.

Try running 'xorgsetup', it might help. It usually auto-detects those sync ranges.

It might give a clue in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Any lines beginning EE or WW are errors.

Sorry, didn't read the first post properly.

thanks H_TeXMeX_H, i feel like a real newb right now; totally forgot about xorgsetup... anyways that worked. thanks alot

Good to hear it worked.