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Distribution: Slackware, Gentoo's and Funtoo's, Roll your Own (LFS, not doobies)
Posts: 67
Rep:
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:
Distribution: Slackware, Gentoo's and Funtoo's, Roll your Own (LFS, not doobies)
Posts: 67
Original Poster
Rep:
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
Distribution: Slackware, Gentoo's and Funtoo's, Roll your Own (LFS, not doobies)
Posts: 67
Original Poster
Rep:
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.
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