[SOLVED] setting graphics card for X

[shadebug]

Whenever I try to startx I'm told I can't run in framebuffermode and please specify busIDs.

Now rumour has it that this might be down to it needing to know which graphics card I'm using. Now I've looked around and can't figure out how to do that (which seems mighty odd to me but there we go)

Any help would be much appreciated.

By the way, this only started happening since I switched to 2.6. I love the high res command line but without a gui to back it up it seems kinda hollow.

In case my sig doesn't have any information I'm running gentoo

[Hayl]

lspci <--- this lists what hadware you have

the X config file is in /etc/X11 and is names xorg.conf unless your distribution still uses XFree86

[shadebug]

I'm on gentoo trying to run XFCE

OK now I don't have an xorg.conf though I do have an xorg.conf.example (this may or may not be the problem)

Now, can I assume that I need to
#cp xorg.conf.example xorg.conf

or should I be a bit more careful with it?

Now lspci -vv is showing me
0000:00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 315PRO PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter

does this mean I would need something along the lines of
Section "Device"
Identifier "SiS 350"
Driver "SiS"
BusID "0000:00:09"
End Section

or would that just cause problems?

[Hayl]

the gentoo desktop documentation has a complete guide to installing/configuring X

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=desktop

[shadebug]

how I missed that I'll never know.

OK, figured out how to automagically create the conf file and moved said conf file from root to etc/X11

problem solved, new one created... life couldn't be more fun

thanks anyway I'm off to figure out where my laptop's hidden its mouse driver

update:
SUCCESS! for some bizarre reason I had a window open with the exact config line I needed to get it working... no clue why but I love opera more than ever now

next challenge: ndiswrapper, I'll see you all over at networking