My video card setup is finally working! Although I was trying an awful lot, and it's possible something else I did fixed things, here are the steps which I suspect caused my system to be in a state where Xorg successfully loads. 1) uninstalled all xorg packages 2) tried installing just the core packages, including intel and i810 drivers 3) creating my own xorg.conf file (since the automagic generation wasn't happening) 4) restarting the computer(!?) 5) this got a GUI, from which a proper screen resolution could be set Something tells me #4 was the real key to fixing *my* problem HOWEVER 1) this is a clean lenny install. Not generating a xorg.conf for an Intel 82845G/GL, apparently a common motherboard video card isn't a good thing. 2) Changing screen resolution causing a crash is a bug, although not as bad as #1 3) Requiring a restart of the computer to continue is worse than #2, but not as bad as #1. Since it is a recoverable one. Xorg.conf attatched Jeff Cliff -- # Don't let Canada get a DMCA
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