Xorg failed to run on old PC.

[Nikola Lecic]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:38:46 +0200
David Marec <dmares.spam at free.fr> wrote:

> Le Thursday 28 June 2007 13:35:57 Nikola Lecic, vous avez écrit :
> 
> 
> > * You must create a config file; you can start with 'Xorg
> > -configure', it will create an initial /root/xorg.conf.new; then
> > you can test it with 'X -config /root/xorg.conf.new'. I think you
> > need something like:
> >
> >   in Section "Monitor"
> >     HorizSync   31.5 - 48.5  # try also: 31.5 - 57.0
> >     VertRefresh 50 - 70      # try also: 50 - 75
> >
> >   in Section "Screen"
> >     DefaultColorDepth 16     # start with the lower value
> >     SubSection "Display"
> >         Depth 16
> >         Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> >     EndSubSection
> >     # delete here all subsections with higher colour depth and
> > modes.
> 
> The problem is the same.
> i published the new log file 
> 	http://david.marec.free.fr/public/Xorg.0.log
> and the http://david.marec.free.fr/public/xorg.conf.new

According to this, you asked your Xorg to start with 800x600 and colour
depth of 8, which it tried without errors this time. Well, all I can
say is that you should try to upgrade to Xorg-7.2 (it is even faster
on older hardware -- and all those "exceeds DDC maximum 0MHz" shouldn't
be in your log AFAIK) or to somehow check your memory, as Norberto has
already suggested (that's why I cc him).

(And maybe that I once experienced that the mouse had caused similarly
weird situation, so you can try to disconnect it or to add Option
"AllowMouseOpenFail" "true" in ServerFlags section.)

Btw, have you used this machine before -- you know that hardware is ok?

Nikola Lečić