Xorg.conf disappears, then X doesn't load

Question

So I come back from vacation, the computer apparently has been working fine this whole time, and my brother goes to the computer and gets some error message.  Turns out the xorg.conf somehow disappeared totally.  I remade the thing, and it looks right, but X doesn't work.  I run startx as a user or as root and the screen flashes dark and then goes into low power mode or whatever it is where the monitor on light changes and it stays black, and then I can't get it to go back, so I have to CTRL-ALT-DELETE and restart, and the logs don't say anything about an error.
However, if I put in my Arch CD and boot into the system, X loads just fine, except for that the mouse doesn't work.  I don't know what's wrong.
ATI Radeon 9600SE w/ xf86-video-ati
xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
Endsection
Section "Module" # commented out lines are part of my messing around hoping it would work
# Load "glx"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
# Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "GLcore"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
# Load "drm"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "xkbmodel" "pc105"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "OQI"
ModelName "Q71-5"
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0
Option "DPMS"
ModeLine "1280x1024" 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "RV350 AQ [Radeon 9600]"
BusID "PCI:3:0:0"
Option "AGPMode" "8"
Option "ColorTiling" "on"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
#More attempting randomly to fix it
#Section "DRI"
# Group "video
# Mode 0660
#EndSection
Last edited by ghyspran (2007-12-05 02:13:41)

Answer 1

grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log while booted from Arch CD
Current Operating System: Linux apollo 2.6.22-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 26 20:57:40 CEST 2007 i686
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log after switching to regular boot and removing hash from marked comments in xorg.conf
Current Operating System: Linux apollo 2.6.23-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Nov 18 07:43:05 UTC 2007 i686
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
Yeah, not a whole lot.
Last edited by ghyspran (2007-12-05 05:14:06)