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
>
>
>
>
Afaik there are two kernel-space drivers for that graphic card, in 2.6
series kernel It's under Device drivers -> Character devices -> DRI
also agp drivers are somwhere around there
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