From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 7:55:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74E9637B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:55:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCA2543E6A for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:55:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (freebsd.localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9HF3f2T036366 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:03:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net) Received: (from nkinkade@localhost) by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g9HF3aD7036365 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:03:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:03:36 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie Message-ID: <20021017150336.GD32334@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20021017082443.13580.qmail@web13007.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021017082443.13580.qmail@web13007.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > 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