[urwethe]

Hi, I am very new so please bear with me.

I have tried searching through the forums but I am stuck.
I am running Oracle Linux 5 with is derived from Redhat.
When I run startx from the root prompt, my resolution will not go smaller than 800 X 600.
I am using Gnome.
I run system-config-display and when I try to set a better resolution, nothing comes up on the screen.
I have a Dell M992 19" Monitor
My video card is Integrated Intel 3D AGP (82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] GE Chipset Integrated Graphics

In addition, I am unable to open a login screen within Gnome.

Do i need to buy a new video card and if so, will it work with my Dell monitor M992?

[urwethe]

Xorg config:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "i810"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

[urwethe]

** New things I noticed. When I close the X Term session, I get the following messages:

Unable to open desktop file
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-writer.desktop
for panel launcher: No such file or directory

Unable to open desktop file
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-impress.desktop
for panel launcher: No such file or directory

Unable to open desktop file
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop
for panel launcher: No such file or directory
WARNING:root:Could not open log file (/tmp/sealert.log) - using stderr

** (gnome-panel:6238): WARNING **: Failed to establish a connection with GDM: No such file or directory

process 6247: Applications must not close shared connections - see dbus_connection_close() docs. This
is a bug in the application.

Window manager warning: Got a request to focus the no_focus_window with a timestamp of 0. This shouldn't
happen!

waiting for X server to shut down .

[urwethe]

OK, Monitor working fine. Path and permissions issue with GDM. Now my second problem that I listed in the beginning, I am unable to run gdmsetup. gdmsetup:4406 Gtk-WARNING ** Cannot open display -- Any ideas? Thanks so much for your help.

[urwethe]

I am going to go back into xorg.conf and change the monitor section back to what it was originally, now that my path and permissions are ok. I will get this done tonight, so I will update this post around 7PM ET. Mar 4 2008.

[urwethe]

Still unable to run gdmsetup.
I get Gtk-Warning **: cannot open display
I am now setting DISPLAY env variable = :0.0
Still have same problem.
Even when I run xhost + I get "unable to open display :0.0"

Any thoughts?

Thanks