cant seem to get x up and running

RedEyez · 11-06-2007, 02:50 PM

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.

XGizzmo · 11-06-2007, 04:03 PM

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?

AceofSpades19 · 11-06-2007, 04:15 PM

did you run xorgconfig before starting x?

RedEyez · 11-06-2007, 04:29 PM

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.

RedEyez · 11-07-2007, 09:55 PM

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.

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-08-2007, 04:25 AM

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

simcox1 · 11-08-2007, 05:21 AM

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

Any lines beginning EE or WW are errors.

simcox1 · 11-08-2007, 05:21 AM

Sorry, didn't read the first post properly.

RedEyez · 11-08-2007, 03:56 PM

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

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-09-2007, 06:02 AM

Good to hear it worked.