[Openchrome-users] Problem getting Xorg to run on Fedora Core 12

[George R. Kasica]

>On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:18:19 +0100, you wrote:

>On 03/13/2010 02:49 PM, George R. Kasica wrote:
>> OK...some progress here...got the config value set for Video ram by
>> some experimentation but now I just get a blank black screen that I
>> need to do a CTL-SHIFT-BACKSPACE to get out of...log below...screen
>> resolution issue or ?? and what should I be setting it to? I'd be
>> happy with 800x600 or 1024x768 or anything at this pint thats not
>> blank black....the FC12 Live CD comes up normally but I don't recall
>> the resolution on that but I could boot it to find out if necessary.
>> 
>> George
>> 
>
>Add the following lines to the Monitor section :
>HorizSync "30-83"
>VertRefresh "56-76"
>
>Then in the Screen section, set the modes you want in the SubSections by
>adding the following line :
>Modes    "1920x1080"
>
>I find it strange though that the F12 live CD comes up fine but not a
>regular F12 install. It should be mostly the same driver (I'll have to
>check what changed between the 2 but it's likely not that significant).
>The live cd doesn't use an xorg.conf at all, you might want to try
>without an xorg conf.


Doesn't like something in that syntax:

Parse error on line 41 of section Monitor in file /root/xorg.conf.new
        The HorizSync keyword must be followed by a list of numbers or
ranges.
(EE) Problem parsing the config file
(EE) Error parsing the config file
 
Fatal server error:
no screens found


# cat xorg.conf.new                                              
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
 
Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d"
        FontPath     "built-ins"
EndSection
 
Section "Module"
        Load  "dri2"
        Load  "vnc"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "glx"
EndSection
 
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
EndSection
 
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
 
Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
        HorizSync "30-83"
        VertRefresh "56-76"
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     "PrintVGARegs"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "PrintTVRegs"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "I2CScan"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VBEModes"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "AccelMethod"               # <str>
        #Option     "ExaNoComposite"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ExaScratchSize"            # <i>
        #Option     "SWCursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"                    # [<str>]
        #Option     "VideoRAM"                  # <i>
        Option      "VideoRAM"                  "65536"
        #Option     "ActiveDevice"              # [<str>]
        #Option     "BusWidth"                  # [<str>]
        #Option     "Center"                    # [<bool>]
        #Option     "PanelSize"                 # [<str>]
        #Option     "ForcePanel"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "TVDotCrawl"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "TVDeflicker"               # <i>
        #Option     "TVType"                    # [<str>]
        #Option     "TVOutput"                  # [<str>]
        #Option     "TVPort"                    # [<str>]
        #Option     "DisableVQ"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DisableIRQ"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "EnableAGPDMA"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAGPFor2D"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoXVDMA"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VbeSaveRestore"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DisableXvBWCheck"          # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ModeSwitchMethod"          # [<str>]
        #Option     "MaxDRIMem"                 # <i>
        #Option     "AGPMem"                    # <i>
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "openchrome"
        VendorName  "VIA Technologies, Inc."
        BoardName   "KM400/KN400/P4M800 [S3 UniChrome]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
 
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     1
                Modes    "1920x1080"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     4
                Modes    "1920x1080"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
                Modes    "1920x1080"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     15
                Modes    "1920x1080"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes    "1920x1080"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1920x1080"
        EndSubSection
EndSection