Xorg Problems with Slackware 10.1 and Dell Dimension 3000
Hi, I am new to linux and slackware, currently I am trying to use and make a good friendship with Slackware to remplace windows, now I am having some problems starting the X Server on my Dell Dimension 3000.
Slackware installed fine and worked, I have tried a LIVE CD from Ubuntu and the GNOME started with the CD... However, I get the following errors 'startx' : (EE) I810(0): No VIDEO BIOS modes for chosen depth. (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server errors: no screens found. XI0: fatail I0 error 104 (connection reset b peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. My computer specs are the following (from dell.com) Quantity Parts # Part Description 1 M5264 PROCESSOR, 80546, 2.8, 1M, PENTIUM 4 PRESCOTT DT, 533, D0 1 7N242 KEYBOARD, 104, UNITED STATES, SILITEK, LOW COST, MIDNIGHT GRAY 1 F2854 KIT, MOUSE, PERSONAL SYSTEM 2, 2BTN, WHEEL, PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD 1 J0201 DUAL IN-LINE MEMORY MODULE, 256, 400M, 32X64, 8K, 184 1 X2749 MODEM, V.92, DATA FAX, INTERNAL, DONNY, DELL AMERICAS ORGANIZATION 1 P0151 DISPLAY, CATHODE-RAY TUBE, 17, DUAL, E773C, MIDNIGHT GRAY, DELL AMERICAS ORGANIZATION 1 P5333 HARD DRIVE, 80G, I, 7.2K, 2M, 80G/P, SEAGATE-ALPINE 1 M1210 ASSEMBLY, FLOPPY DRIVE, 212, 2 1 T7166 KIT, SOFTWARE, WP-PRDCT-STE12, ENGLAND/ENGLISH, V2 1 R2553 KIT, SOFTWARE, OVERPACK, WXPHSP1A, COMPACT DISKETTE W/DOCUMENTATION, ENGLAND/ENGLISH 1 Y6575 COMPACT DISK READ WRITE, 48X32, IDE (INTEGRATED DRIVE ELECTRONICS), SAMSUNG, MIDNIGHT GRAY, V2 I use (for windows XP) the following video driver downloaded from Dell. Intel Springdale G Integrated Video On X -configure (the config generator) says the card is: 82865G Integrated Graphics Device. I have raised the BIOS memory from 1MB to 8MB (max) that someone said it worked for him, it hasn't worked for me... How could I get my X linux dell pc working? Thanks |
issue xorgconfig in the commandline and try reconfigure X. You need to know correct informations about your graphic card and monitor specs.
Cheers |
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Thanks for your reply, I have done what you said and now I only get (EE) VGA(0): driver can't support depth 24 |
When you reconfigur X, did you choose just depth 24?
It supposed to go to lower depth like 16 if your screen can't handle depth 24 and then 8 if your screen can't handle depth 16 Try to change your default depth to 16 if it is work. Here is my screen section from /etc/X11/xorg.conf file You can manually edit xorg.conf file if you only got that error. # ********************************************************************** # Screen sections # ********************************************************************** # Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes # the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section # may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen" # option. Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 1" Device "Radeon" Monitor "My Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection |
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On the configuration screen I selected just depth 24. After what you said I have tested depth 16 and didn't work. I tried depth 8 and started but like this: http://img55.exs.cx/img55/7738/image0461ed.jpg I started windows and looked at my config, I can run 16 Bit and 32 bit depth on Win32, why not in linux? :confused: |
Maybe I found why...
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...4&DwnldID=8211 But it's an RPM, can I run/install these on Slack? |
you can change RPM package to tgz using rpm2tgz command
rpm2tgz yourRPMfile it will change your RPM file to .tgz file then use this command installpkg yourfile.tgz to install |
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One last question, I am running Xorg not XFree86 like it shows on thier documentation they say XFree86 is requiered, can we bypass it or will it work the same? http://support.intel.com/support/gra.../CS-010512.htm |
I think so
Xorg is newer version of XFree86 Cheers |
I just had this to pass on to my head, if I didn't setup a SWAP partition, could that be why that the system doesn't run 24 bits?
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I've never installed Linux without Swap partition, so I'm not sure.
Try to reconfigure xorgconfig? |
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I re-installed Slack and this time with a 200Mb SWAP linux partition worked :D :Pengy: Thanks for all your help!! ;) |
Cool!
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