At 08:28 AM 1/19/03, you wrote:
I got it workin! Starts every time now. Looks wonderful.On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Greg Julius wrote:> I started completely over. Saved off my tarballs (kernel and > XFree86-cvstree) and various other items and did a complete reinstall. I > made sure that libpng and zlib were there. Remember libpng missing is what Just libpng and zlib is not enough. You must have libpng-devel and zlib-devel. The -devel versions of packages contain the header files AND the libraries. The versions without -devel contain obly the libraries.
As I mentioned above I started over with a fresh install. I selected all of the system and gnome development things and left off a bunch of stuff I wasn't ready to play with. Install went fine. Built & installed the 2.4.20 Kernel (with changes previously discussed about) Browsed to make sure that zlib and libpng were available. Built and installed the XFree86 cvs branch 4.2.99.3. Compiled with no problems and installed with no problems. [Drat those missing files :( ] Then I built the i830.o module as per David Dawes instructions on 845G and installed so it could be automatically found.
Rebooted. Made sure i830 was showing up in lsmod (not exactly sure when I did this after the boot however) - it was there. Started X and ...
Nothing - same thing - blank screen. Gurr!
I was going back into the XF86Config to switch the driver to "vesa" when it occurred to me to check again the horizontal and vertical refresh rates for my monitor. I pulled out the documents that I had gotten from the web when I first started this and sure enough, 30-75 kHz is what it said. Just what I had. But then I looked at another document for the same monitor and noted it said 31.5-64 kHz. Hummmmmm. OK, not much different but let's see. Changed and rebooted and startx and ...
Gnome!
Hot Dawg!
OK, why did I end up on the wrong path all this time? startx never started correctly after the install. I searched the net and found that I need the 845 driver, but in the meantime could use the vesa driver. Changing to the vesa driver did result in the startx starting Gnome and looked reasonable. It just wouldn't restart. Couldn't switch consoles, and standby killed it. That seemed to rule out refresh rate issues. And the installation program (anaconda) ran beautifully in high color and resolution - it must have gotten the settings right. No?
No. It didn't. At least I have a variation of the EV700 Gateway monitor with a lower refresh rate than the install program picked.
Bummer, all of this time, all of you good folk's help, patience, and effort, just because of a mis-direction. Crum.
I want to say
THANK Y'ALL,
THANK Y'ALL,
THANK Y'ALL.
I'm sorry I wasted so much of your time.
But, IT WORKS NOW!!!
It even goes to stand-by, powers down, and wakes up. I can switch consoles and back. I can stop and restart without a reboot.
Hot Dawg!
Thanks again,
-g
Gee, Doc., now that the surgery is finished, it doesn't hurt so bad....
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