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Post December 23rd, 2007, 11:12 am

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What graphics card do you have?

It is built-in on the laptop Toshiba called : Mobile Intel(R) 945G Express Chipset amily
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Post December 23rd, 2007, 11:12 am

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Post December 23rd, 2007, 12:58 pm

what does your VideoCard section look like? Did you remove that package (xorg-x11-drv-amd)? Install the 915resolution package as well.
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Post December 23rd, 2007, 9:42 pm

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what does your VideoCard section look like?

I did not get what you meant.

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Did you remove that package (xorg-x11-drv-amd)?

Output for
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yum remove xorg-x11-drv-amd

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No match for argument: xorg-x11-drv-amd
No packages marked for removal.



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rpm -qa | grep xorg-x11-drv-*

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xorg-x11-drv-evdov-1.1.2-3.fc7
xorg-x11-drv-void-1.1.0-4.fc7
xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.1.0-3.fc7
xorg-x11-drv-vesa-1.3.0-8.fc7
xorg-x11-drv-mouse-1.2.1-2.fc7
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Post December 24th, 2007, 8:04 am

This is my VideoCard section, though it's for an nVidia card:
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Section "Device"
    Identifier "Videocard0"
    Driver   "nvidia"
    Option   "BackStoring" "true"
    Option   "ConnectToAcpid" "false"
    Option   "DamageEvents" "true"
    Option   "TripleBuffer" "false"
    Option   "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option   "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection
  1. Section "Device"
  2.     Identifier "Videocard0"
  3.     Driver   "nvidia"
  4.     Option   "BackStoring" "true"
  5.     Option   "ConnectToAcpid" "false"
  6.     Option   "DamageEvents" "true"
  7.     Option   "TripleBuffer" "false"
  8.     Option   "RenderAccel" "true"
  9.     Option   "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
  10. EndSection

Here's one for a machine with an SIS card:
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Section "Device"
    Identifier "Videocard0"
    Driver   "sis"
EndSection
  1. Section "Device"
  2.     Identifier "Videocard0"
  3.     Driver   "sis"
  4. EndSection


What chipset do you have? The following will give a good indication:
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lspci | grep "Host Bridge"

If this returns AMD anything, you probably do want the drv-amd package installed. For some reason, your X configuration is looking for it (ztv). It's possible that I wrongly assumed it was erroring on that because of a problem with the module rather than a requirement for it (though it seems odd to me that X would be dying instead of using default modules).

Is this a laptop? If so, what model. There are numerous bug reports on Fedora 7 running on various laptops. An upgrade to Fedora 8 may actually be your best answer.
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Post December 24th, 2007, 11:09 am

if the xorg.conf file was modified there should be a backup inside /etc/X11..
if you enter the command
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ls -l /etc/X11
it should show you the files in that folder and show you what date they were created. look to see if theres some backup file in that folder, which may be ~xorg.conf or xorg.conf.bak (something of the sort). if there is an old xorg.conf file, you could try replacing the current one with the old one ? which you need root privileges for so..
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su
<enter your root password>
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.BAK122407  (or whatever name format you prefer for backups :])
(this next file is going to be the 'old'/'backup' file you found)
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak /etc/X11/xorg.conf
exit
startx
  1. su
  2. <enter your root password>
  3. mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.BAK122407  (or whatever name format you prefer for backups :])
  4. (this next file is going to be the 'old'/'backup' file you found)
  5. cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  6. exit
  7. startx


i did a little search about the graphics driver and stumbled across this:
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Note: If you have a 945 or older graphics controller, your distribution will already have the right drivers included.

http://intellinuxgraphics.org/download.html

hope this helps :]
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Post December 24th, 2007, 11:26 am

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look to see if theres some backup file in that folder, which may be ~xorg.conf or xorg.conf.bak (something of the sort).

Unfortunatly there are no such files.
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Post December 24th, 2007, 8:03 pm

damn. you should be able to generate a new file.. i believe, the command would be (needed to run with root privileges) Xorg --configure
see what that does for ya
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Post December 24th, 2007, 10:44 pm

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damn. you should be able to generate a new file..

Thanks AnarchY SI for your and others who tried to find out where is the problem.
I have been struggling with this problem since 11-12, therefore today I killed the cat and reinstalled FC7.[/quote]
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Post December 25th, 2007, 1:44 pm

no problem :]
just as long as it works i guess ^_^ lol
feel free to post back with any more questions
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