Xorg refuses to work........at all......

[InTheFlatField]

Me and Xorg are not getting along, its built in configuring comand only found my monitor and my card and gave me the wrong information about both...I have had to search the internet and write out almost the entire file by hand......however I am running out of ideas and would be happy if some more experienced users would look over my xorg.conf file for problems.....


I have included my hardware information, my software information, the error I am diplayed, and the contents of xorg.conf. There might be some spacing inconsistencies as I had to copy it to paper by hand then type it out.......

Thanks for looking....any help WILL be appreciated.

Hardware Inforamtion:

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2800+
MOBO: MSI KT6V
GPU: nVidia GeForce FX 5200
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live 5.1
Mouse: Microsoft Intellimouse
Keyboard: Micrsoft Multimedia Keyboard
Monitor: Dell P780

Software Information:

Kernel 2.6.11-r3
Gentoo 2005.0
X Window System 6.8.2
nVidia Driver 7174

Error

(EE) VGA(0): Driver can't support depth 24
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

xorg.conf=

Section “ServerLayout
Identifier “X.org Configured”
Screen 0 “screen0” 0 0
InputDevice “Mouse0” “CorePointer”
InputDevice “Keyboard0” “CoreKeyboard”
EndSection

Section “Files:
RgbPath “/usr/lib/X11/rgb”
ModulePath “/usr/lib/modules”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc/”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/TTF/”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Type1/”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/CID/”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load “extmod”
Load “dbe”
Load “record”
Load “xtrap”
Load “glx”
Load “type1”
Load “freetype”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “mouse0”
Driver “mouse”
Option “Protocol” “ExplorerPS/2”
Option “Device” “/dev/usbmouse”
Option “Buttons” “7”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “6 7”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
DisplaySize 312 234 # mm
Identifier “Monitor0”
VendorName “DEL”
ModelName “DELL P780”
HorizSync 30.0 – 85.0
VertRefresh 48.0 – 120.0
Option “DPMS”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “card0”
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “nVidia Corporation”
BoardName “NV34 [Geforce FX 5200]
Option “AGPMode” “8”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “screen0”
Device “card0”
Monitor “Monitor0
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “1024x768” “800x600” “640x480”
EndSubSection
Subsection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “1024x768” “800x600” “640x480”
EndSubSection
Subsection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “1024x768” “800x600” “640x480”
EndSubSection
EndSection

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[fourhead]

Hi,

first of all, afaik there's no AGPMode "8", I think there's only 0,1 and 2. Try deleting all sections in "Screen" that have a depth other than 24 (keep only the Subsection that specifices Depth 24). I'm not entirely sure but the line (EE) VGA(0) makes me think that X is not using the nvidia driver, but the standard VGA driver. You could also see if it works when using "vesa" as a driver.

Tom

[30726]

Use xorgconfig to generate a config (as root). Here are the values you'll need for your monitor (I assume you know what resolution your prefer):