I should also say the hardware detection at install does not properly configure the graphics with my i810 chip, it drops in to the hand modify option. If you enter mcedit and save without any changes you get the intel generic driver, which does not produce a working Xwindows.
Lyn,
we need as much info from your system as we can get in order to try and solve this.
can you post the output of lsmod and lspci as root?
the intel driver is supposed to work for your card.
the intel website says you need to have the agpgart, intel-agp, drm and i915 modules loaded before starting xorg.
try manually loading these modules and then starting X with the intel driver.
Thanks,
Uelsk8s
First of all thank you very much for helping me do this.
Here are the two files I have generated.
lsmod
Module Size Used by
freq_table 4768 0
lp 10888 0
parport_pc 37092 1
parport 32072 2 lp,parport_pc
snd_seq_dummy 3716 0
snd_seq_oss 32128 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7168 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 48720 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 7692 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 38048 0
snd_mixer_oss 15232 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0 29980 0
snd_ac97_codec 98084 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 2944 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 69764 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 19972 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 45796 10 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 7008 1 snd
eepro100 27664 0
snd_page_alloc 8712 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
mii 5504 1 eepro100
serio_raw 6276 0
iTCO_wdt 9640 0
shpchp 30228 0
intel_agp 22164 1
pci_hotplug 28616 1 shpchp
i2c_i810 5380 0
i2c_algo_bit 6532 1 i2c_i810
i2c_core 20992 2 i2c_i810,i2c_algo_bit
agpgart 28108 1 intel_agp
evdev 8704 0
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
Having loaded the modules as you describe one by one as root I then typed startx and behold I had a working Xfce desktop, complete with the crashes when I ran a terminal or any terminal ap from the xfce menu but fine when opening a terminal from the quick start icons.
Here is the full xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
Load "xtrap"
Load "record"
Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb" ## KEYBOARD_MAP!
Option "XkbModel" "pc104" ## KEYBOARD_MODEL!
Option "Xkbvariant" "" ## KEYBOARD_VARIANT!
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
DisplaySize 269 201 # 96 DPI @ 1024x768
#DisplaySize 280 210 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "DEL"
ModelName "DELL D828L"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC:
HorizSync 30.0 - 54.0
VertRefresh 48.0 - 120.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values:
: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" #
#Option "CacheLines" #
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" #
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC)"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "on"
EndSection
Hope it all helps