Ok I am running framebuffer-dev cuase my card is not supported like usuall, it is running at 8bit in kde... Is there a way to change it to a higher bit I tried uncomenting in the xf86config the depth and replacing the 8 with a 16 and no go it just refused to load up xwindows.....

Any suggestions?????????????

Why dont you tell us what video card it is?

ok I just looked up the video card for my Viao pcg r505el and it says its an "Intel 830MG" says its 32mb

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Cool

haha, ok no problem

That card should work. What distro are you using?

Try running this before starting X:
XFree86 -configure
Then if it works it will tell you how to test the new configuration file.

I am using slackware I burned the cd like a month or 2 ago if that tells you what version.........
I tried doing that then starting it with the new file and it started opening and then just showed my mouse I could move it and the screend didnt load up it just froze there

anyone please help I cant stand 8bit color I am going to go insane, that XFree86 thing worked and made a file however when i try to load in with that file instead it just shows my mouse pointer and a screen all in pixles and everything is frozen

you're a step closer to configuring X in that case. . What errors does it throw up when it freezes? What does /var/log/xfree86.0.log (or something similar) look like? How about your XF86Config (you can see where that is from the top of your log file)? Without that info its hard to help.

Sorry

joey age 15

IT doesnt give me any errors when it freezes it just stars to load up Xwindows then just stops and does nothing /// ANd what do you want to know about the Log file?

just do a "cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log" and post what it spits up, it'll prlly tell you where its hitting the error that locks you up, and mayhaps you can find it in dmesg (though dmesg has a lesser possibility of showing where the errors at)

/var/log# cat XFree86.0.log

XFree86 Version 4.3.0
Release Date: 27 February 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.20 i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 01 March 2003
Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sun Aug 31 20:00:35 2003
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
(==) ServerLayout "Simple Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen 1" (0)
(**) | |-->Monitor "My Monitor"
(**) | |-->Device "VESA Framebuffer"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1"
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
(**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
(--) using VT number 7

(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)
(II) Module ABI versions:
XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2
XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6
XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4
XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2
XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
(II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font Bitmap
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a
(II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1
(II) PCI: Config type is 1
(II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x8000ea3c, mode1Res1 = 0x80000000
(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,3575 card 104d,8100 rev 04 class 06,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:02:0: chip 8086,3577 card 104d,8100 rev 04 class 03,00,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:02:1: chip 8086,3577 card 104d,8100 rev 00 class 03,80,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:1d:0: chip 8086,2482 card 104d,8100 rev 02 class 0c,03,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:1d:1: chip 8086,2484 card 104d,8100 rev 02 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:2: chip 8086,2487 card 104d,8100 rev 02 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1e:0: chip 8086,2448 card 0000,0000 rev 42 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:1f:0: chip 8086,248c card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 06,01,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:1f:1: chip 8086,248a card 104d,8100 rev 02 class 01,01,8a hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1f:3: chip 8086,2483 card 104d,8100 rev 02 class 0c,05,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1f:5: chip 8086,2485 card 104d,8100 rev 02 class 04,01,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1f:6: chip 8086,2486 card 104d,8100 rev 02 class 07,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 02:02:0: chip 104c,8023 card 104d,8100 rev 00 class 0c,00,10 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 02:05:0: chip 1180,0475 card 4000,0000 rev 80 class 06,07,00 hdr 02
(II) PCI: 02:08:0: chip 8086,1031 card 104d,8100 rev 42 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: End of PCI scan
(II) Host-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,3), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 0 I/O range:
[0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B]
(II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
(II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 2: bridge is at (0:30:0), (0,2,2), BCTRL: 0x0004 (VGA_EN is cleared)
(II) Bus 2 I/O range:
[0] -1 0 0x00003000 - 0x000030ff (0x100) IX[B]
[1] -1 0 0x00003400 - 0x000034ff (0x100) IX[B]
[2] -1 0 0x00003800 - 0x000038ff (0x100) IX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x00003c00 - 0x00003cff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) Bus 2 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0xe0200000 - 0xe02fffff (0x100000) MX[B]
(II) PCI-to-ISA bridge:
(II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:31:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) PCI-to-CardBus bridge:
(II) Bus 3: bridge is at (2:5:0), (2,3,6), BCTRL: 0x0580 (VGA_EN is cleared)
(--) PCI:*(0:2:0) Intel Corp. 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] rev 4, Mem @ 0xe8000000/27, 0xe0000000/19
(--) PCI: (0:2:1) Intel Corp. 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] rev 0, Mem @ 0xf0000000/27, 0xe0080000/19
(II) Addressable bus resource ranges are
[0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
[1] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B]
(II) OS-reported resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) Active PCI resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xe0204000 - 0xe0204fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[1] -1 0 0xe0200000 - 0xe0203fff (0x4000) MX[B]
[2] -1 0 0xe0205000 - 0xe02057ff (0x800) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0xe0100000 - 0xe01003ff (0x400) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0xe0080000 - 0xe00fffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[5] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[6] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe007ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[7] -1 0 0xe8000000 - 0xefffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[8] -1 0 0x00003000 - 0x0000303f (0x40) IX[B]
[9] -1 0 0x00002000 - 0x0000207f (0x80) IX[B]
[10] -1 0 0x00002400 - 0x000024ff (0x100) IX[B]
[11] -1 0 0x000018c0 - 0x000018ff (0x40) IX[B]
[12] -1 0 0x00001c00 - 0x00001cff (0x100) IX[B]
[13] -1 0 0x00001880 - 0x0000189f (0x20) IX[B]
[14] -1 0 0x00001860 - 0x0000186f (0x10) IX[B]
[15] -1 0 0x00000374 - 0x00000374 (0x1) IX[B]
[16] -1 0 0x00000170 - 0x00000177 (0x8) IX[B]
[17] -1 0 0x000003f4 - 0x000003f4 (0x1) IX[B]
[18] -1 0 0x000001f0 - 0x000001f7 (0x8) IX[B]
[19] -1 0 0x00001840 - 0x0000185f (0x20) IX[B]
[20] -1 0 0x00001820 - 0x0000183f (0x20) IX[B]
[21] -1 0 0x00001800 - 0x0000181f (0x20) IX[B]
(II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps:
[0] -1 0 0xe0204000 - 0xe0204fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[1] -1 0 0xe0200000 - 0xe0203fff (0x4000) MX[B]
[2] -1 0 0xe0205000 - 0xe02057ff (0x800) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0xe0100000 - 0xe01003ff (0x400) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0xe0080000 - 0xe00fffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[5] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[6] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe007ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[7] -1 0 0xe8000000 - 0xefffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[8] -1 0 0x00003000 - 0x0000303f (0x40) IX[B]
[9] -1 0 0x00002000 - 0x0000207f (0x80) IX[B]
[10] -1 0 0x00002400 - 0x000024ff (0x100) IX[B]
[11] -1 0 0x000018c0 - 0x000018ff (0x40) IX[B]
[12] -1 0 0x00001c00 - 0x00001cff (0x100) IX[B]
[13] -1 0 0x00001880 - 0x0000189f (0x20) IX[B]
[14] -1 0 0x00001860 - 0x0000186f (0x10) IX[B]
[15] -1 0 0x00000374 - 0x00000374 (0x1) IX[B]
[16] -1 0 0x00000170 - 0x00000177 (0x8) IX[B]
[17] -1 0 0x000003f4 - 0x000003f4 (0x1) IX[B]
[18] -1 0 0x000001f0 - 0x000001f7 (0x8) IX[B]
[19] -1 0 0x00001840 - 0x0000185f (0x20) IX[B]
[20] -1 0 0x00001820 - 0x0000183f (0x20) IX[B]
[21] -1 0 0x00001800 - 0x0000181f (0x20) IX[B]
(II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI:
[0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) All system resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0xe0204000 - 0xe0204fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[6] -1 0 0xe0200000 - 0xe0203fff (0x4000) MX[B]
[7] -1 0 0xe0205000 - 0xe02057ff (0x800) MX[B]
[8] -1 0 0xe0100000 - 0xe01003ff (0x400) MX[B]
[9] -1 0 0xe0080000 - 0xe00fffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[10] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[11] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe007ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[12] -1 0 0xe8000000 - 0xefffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[13] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[14] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[15] -1 0 0x00003000 - 0x0000303f (0x40) IX[B]
[16] -1 0 0x00002000 - 0x0000207f (0x80) IX[B]
[17] -1 0 0x00002400 - 0x000024ff (0x100) IX[B]
[18] -1 0 0x000018c0 - 0x000018ff (0x40) IX[B]
[19] -1 0 0x00001c00 - 0x00001cff (0x100) IX[B]
[20] -1 0 0x00001880 - 0x0000189f (0x20) IX[B]
[21] -1 0 0x00001860 - 0x0000186f (0x10) IX[B]
[22] -1 0 0x00000374 - 0x00000374 (0x1) IX[B]
[23] -1 0 0x00000170 - 0x00000177 (0x8) IX[B]
[24] -1 0 0x000003f4 - 0x000003f4 (0x1) IX[B]
[25] -1 0 0x000001f0 - 0x000001f7 (0x8) IX[B]
[26] -1 0 0x00001840 - 0x0000185f (0x20) IX[B]
[27] -1 0 0x00001820 - 0x0000183f (0x20) IX[B]
[28] -1 0 0x00001800 - 0x0000181f (0x20) IX[B]
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a
(II) Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a
(II) Module extmod: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension SHAPE
(II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
(II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS
(II) Loading extension SYNC
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XC-MISC
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension FontCache
(II) Loading extension TOG-CUP
(II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "type1"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a
(II) Module type1: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.2
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font Type1
(II) Loading font CID
(II) LoadModule: "freetype"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a
(II) Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 2.0.2
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font FreeType
(II) LoadModule: "speedo"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a
(II) Module speedo: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.1
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font Speedo
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
(II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading sub module "GLcore"
(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
(II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.o
(II) Module fbdev: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 0.1.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
(II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver
ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.4
(II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev, afb
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0
(II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
(II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a
(II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 0.0.2
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) FBDEV(0): using default device
(II) Running in FRAMEBUFFER Mode
(==) FBDEV(0): Depth 8, (==) framebuffer bpp 8
(==) FBDEV(0): Default visual is PseudoColor
(==) FBDEV(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(II) FBDEV(0): Hardware: VESA VGA (vidmem: 832k)
(II) FBDEV(0): Checking Modes against framebuffer device...
(II) FBDEV(0): Checking Modes against monitor...
(--) FBDEV(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024)
(**) FBDEV(0): Built-in mode "current": 78.7 MHz, 59.9 kHz, 75.7 Hz
(II) FBDEV(0): Modeline "current" 78.65 1024 1056 1184 1312 768 772 776 792 -hsync -vsync -csync
(==) FBDEV(0): DPI set to (75, 75)
(II) Loading sub module "fb"
(II) LoadModule: "fb"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.a
(II) Module fb: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.2
(**) FBDEV(0): Using "Shadow Framebuffer"
(II) Loading sub module "shadow"
(II) LoadModule: "shadow"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadow.a
(II) Module shadow: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.2
(EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPAN_DISPLAY: Invalid argument
(==) FBDEV(0): Backing store disabled
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension LBX
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPAN_DISPLAY: Invalid argument
(EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPAN_DISPLAY: Invalid argument
(**) Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
(**) Mouse1: Protocol: "PS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse1: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
(**) Mouse1: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(==) Mouse1: Buttons: 3
(II) Keyboard "Keyboard1" handled by legacy driver
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE)
(II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded

there is the logfile but is that the right one cuase I am still underframe buffer right now not on the new file cuase it freezes

err, we need the log of when you load the configuration file that freezes as that will tell where the error lies... perhaps