trouble getting x to start - xorg.xonf/monitor related

[slug420]

I followed the document on the gentoo site for emerging and configuring xorg, but I am unable to get the gui up and running.

It appears to be a problem with my monitor settings. Sometimes when I run Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new it gives me an error saying no screens and mentioning something about a parsing error on line 50 of the monitors section where the vertrefresh rate needs to be a number or a range.

So I go in to the file and loko and it is set to 50.0-0.0

I am assuming that this is the problem and I have been scouring the net everywhere trying to find what the correct settings for my monitor (compaq s7500) are. I change those settings around a bit and then when i run xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new it goes to a black screen for like a second and then shoots me into a black and white patterned gui screen (looks like a grey screen at high resolutions) with my cursor on it in the shape of an X. I can move my mouse, but the background looks a little funny and nothing else ever loads it just sits on that one screen.....

any ideas?


here is an excerpt from /root/xorg.conf.new

Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 320 240 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "CPQ"
ModelName "COMPAQ 7500"
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 60.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "i810"
VendorName "Intel Corp."
BoardName "82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Integrated Graphics Device"

BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection




thanks!
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[slug420]

tail Xorg.0.log:

Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/, removing from
list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from
list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from
list!
_________________
On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means hold on, yellow means go ahead, and red means where the fuck did you get that banana at...

[slug420]

hmmm
despite these problems and despite the fact that when i run
Xorg -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf it hangs as mentioned above startx actually seems to work and puts me into a gui with a few terminal windows open

when I type exit in one of those terminal windows however it goes to a black screen and hangs.......

your thoughts?
_________________
On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means hold on, yellow means go ahead, and red means where the fuck did you get that banana at...