I think the problem is that you put in the name of the video card in xorg.conf when you really should put in the name of the driver. I'm surprised that you were able to boot at all into a graphical interface.

My advice would be to put the old xorg.conf file back until you find out the name of the driver. That way it will boot normally for the time being.

As jk07 said, you needed to put the name of the driver, not the name of the video card itself. If you can edit/recreate your xorg.conf file, it should look something like this:

Now, you said that this had no effect. As far as I know, this should be the way to get your video card working. I checked in my Synaptic Package Manager, and the xserver-xorg-video-openchrome package is already installed by default. This means that it should already be installed on your machine as well. So directing the xorg to use the "openchrome" driver should get your 3D acceleration turned on. Curiouser and curiouser...

On another note, did you ever get a chance to launch the "Additional Drivers" application to see if there are any proprietary (i.e., not open) drivers available? It should be in your Mint Menu under "Preferences". If you can't find it, you can also launch it using the "Run Command" (press Alt+F2) and typing in "jockey-gtk" without quotes. Hit ENTER, and the "Additional Drivers" application should launch. See if there are any drivers there that you can activate.

I just took a look at my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe.

It looks like your first xorg.conf:
is actually the failsafe version. It is identical to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe.

Instead, my /etc/X11/xorg.conf looks like this:
Try changing your Identifier from "Configured Video Device" to "Default Device" and set Device to "openchrome". I don't know if this will do anything, but thought it might be worth a try.

i have another problem now too, which started before this action but is continuing now too. it takes 3 boots to get the computer booted.


on the driver problem i changed as you recommended and nothing looks different.

also I'm not doing the right stuff with the code and quote things... dont know what i'm doing wrong there either(edited) oops... I guess it looks ok so now i can do the code quote thing.


thinks,
Nate

Did you include the : in your xorg.conf or is that just something you added as you were trying to do the code tags?

Ginsu:

That ' : ' must have been something I added ... it's not in my xorg.conf file


thanks,
Nate

This post is not really solved except for deciding that my video card was not capable of displaying what it needed too in Cinammon. So as i said in another post (I don't think i broke the multi post rules , I didn't mean too) I just used a better computer and it worked and I'm very impressed ... very very impressed. I guess being comfortable with it being incapable is solved in a negative way so I will mark it so.

Thanks,
Nate