Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:03:36 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie Message-ID: <20021017150336.GD32334@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <20021017082443.13580.qmail@web13007.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021017082443.13580.qmail@web13007.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:24:43AM -0700, J. Foobar wrote: > I have been unable to get X to start successfully. > Hopefully I am overlooking something stupid. > > FreeBSD 4.6.2 on an Intel machine > > My graphics card is an Intel 82845G/GL. I searched > for info on the Intel site and it mentioned that this > card is in the i810 class. > > >From my XF86Config file: > Section "Device" > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "i810" > Chipset "i810" > Card "Intel i810" > End Section > > I have added the agp_load="YES" line to > /boot/loader.conf and /dev/agpgart exists. > > 'startx' returns the following: > > -------------------------------- > (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (Device not > configured) > (EE) I810(0): AGP GART support is not available. Make > sure your kernel has agpgart support or that the > agpgart kernel module is loaded. > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable > configuration. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > <snip> > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server > shutdown) > xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority > xauth: (argv:1: bad dusplay name in ":0" in "remove" > command > xauth: (argv:1: bad dusplay name in ":0" in "remove" > command > ------------------------------------ > > I really have no idea what to do next. Any help would > be appreciated, the more layman the terms, the better. > > Thanks, > Justin Have you run `kldstat' (man kldstat) to make sure that the AGP module is actually loaded? Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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