I'm taking a shot in the dark here, but try commenting out both the
lines "Load dri" and "VideoRAM".

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 19:41 -0400, Daniel Bickett wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Yesterday I spontaneously decided to leave WinXP behind, and I burned
> a Gentoo ISO and installed it. It took me all night, being that I'm
> not experienced with these things, but here I am. The next thing I did
> was emerge X and KDE, as I wanted a windowing system, and this is
> where my problem begins.
> 
> I used the config generator to acquire my xorg.conf ("X -config" if I
> remember correctly) and when I tested everything was fine: the cursor
> was there, the background was there, it worked. But when I used
> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to exit, my screen went into what I've come to call
> a "color fit": sporadic colors asserted themselves across my screen in
> an equally sporadic manner. I was forced to reboot and try again,
> after which I discovered that if I wanted to get to this
> non-functional colored nonsense more *quickly*, I could just type
> "startx". At this point I went to #gentoo on freenode for help.
> 
> Many people were willing to help, but I didn't get anywhere. Everyone
> had their own opinion on what I needed to do to fix the situation, and
> most of them had to do with my xorg.conf. No matter what I changed,
> however, I always got those crazy colors. At one point someone told me
> that my chipset, the Intel 82845, was notorious for having trouble
> with X, and another referred me to the XFree86 documentation. I
> eventually found the page for the driver my graphics card uses (i810),
> and I did my best to apply the necessary changes
> (http://xfree86.org/4.4.0/i810.4.html), but to no avail. You can see
> my xorg.conf here, where I've just now uploaded it:
> http://heureusement.org/other/xorg.conf
> 
> This is rather important to me, as the programs I work on depend on a
> graphical user interface, and I need a windowing system to have any
> sort of productivity. The last thing I want to do is go back.
> 
> Thank you,
> Daniel Bickett
> 
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Bickett
> dbickett at gmail.com
> http://heureusement.org/
> 
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