Can't get XFree86 going properly

[jamez515]

Bonjour,

Here's my problem everytime i try to get debian going i always run into the same problem. The damn Xfree86 wont start. Whenever i type the startx command the computer shoots backs a ton of errors (i'll detail them after i give specs)

My system consists of the following:

BIOS = IntelR - 42302e31
Processor Type = x86 family
Processor = Intel Celeron 1.9 GHz
Graphics Card is part of the mobo its an Intel Extreme Graphics Controller and its got 16 mb of video ram.

My moniter is a nokia 446xs i've done the reasearch and its horzizontal frequencies are 30.0-96.0, the vertical frequencies are 50.0-150.0. These numbers are all in KHz. Now during the X86 config process i punch these numbers in but the system wont seem to start x. I'm pretty sure that im not telling it the right video drivers to use and that's why it doesnt load properly. But i dont see my video driver there. I've tried i810 and it didnt work. I havent tried i740 but im pretty sure its not going to work either.

Nowhere's the errors it spits out after i type startx:

Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_clip.o": No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_norm.o": No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_xform.o": No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_vertex.o": No symbols found
(EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (no such device)
(EE) I810(0): No Video Bios modes for chosen depth.
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

X connection to 0:0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)

Now i've run RedHat for a whille and then i switched to Ubuntu because it was similar to Debian and both systems ran X-windows perfectly im not sure why i cant get it to work on debian.

I've tried running startx - probeonly and -configure still wont work. After some reasearch i read about the program SuperProbe but when i try to run it i get the error "command not found" then i tried apt-get install superprobe but it seems it wont download.

I feel like i've tried almost everything to get it to work but still i get fatal errors. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
jamez515

[objuan]

Hello
It looks like your config for xfree is missing the video modes.
check your logs. look in /var/log/ at the kdm or gdm or xdm
log. at the bottom of one of these files it will give more info.

[jamez515]

Thanks for the reply i've checked the log of xdm as you suggested and looked at the bottom here's what it says:

xdm error (pid 574): server for display :0 terminated
xdm error (pid 574): display :0 is being disabled 
xdm info (pid 574): exiting

also i tried updating the video driver to vesa...beacause a few people from another forum instructed me to. Still got the same errors plus a few more.

Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_clip.o": No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_norm.o": No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_xform.o": No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_vertex.o": No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o": No symbols found
(EE) VESA(0): No matching modes
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

X connection to 0:0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)

does anyone know what these liGLcore.a:m_debug errors actually mean?

Thanks
jamez515