[usr_208]

well, i had Red Hat working just fine and then I went and tried out a few different distros and now I cant seem to get it working. I installed it twice already and it boots up and wont go into the Graphic mode. says i have errors with my video card and monitor, but i think it really is just my monitor it has problems with. I selected both in the setup, but I think it just can't probe my monitor on bootup to see what it is. It gives me an error that it wont work and gave me the readout of the problems, but I cant correct them. After I get into text mode, I try typing "xf86config" to start the XFree86 configure thing, but it doesnt work? any ideas? Mandrake works, but I cant install gaim because all the sites seem to be down, and red hat came with it, so i figured i would just use that. plus i like it a little better. please help. thanks

[tsunam]

okie go to your /etc/X11 directory in "text" mode as you put it.

Do a vi XF86Config (if you have a XF86Config-4 that's the one you want to edit, since it takes precedence)

Look online for the refresh rates of your monitor. Look thru the XF86Config file and you want to edit the Vsync and Ysync to match with what it says. Exit the config file, after saving it and then do a startx. It should start up Xfree. If it doesn't then there is something else wrong .

Let us know if this fixes it.

[usr_208]

ok im gunna try. right now im on suse. seems the only distros i dont really want install with ease (suse, mandrake) and the ones i want (red hat, debian) get stuck with the problems with xf86 config problems

so...

cd /ect/X11
vi XF86Config


ok

[usr_208]

i did that and it let me look at the file. and it was showing all the correct stuff,. showed the mointor type and rates and video card. it just wont seem to start XFree86. and if i type XF86Config it wont do anything. just says command not found.

[usr_208]

ideas anyone?

[Whiteskin]

Tried "startx"?

[usr_208]

yeah, thats the problem. the system is booting up to automattically run startx and go into the gnome gui. but somehow there is a problem with the xf86config file. i look at it but it seems fine, i dont know how exactly to save it and then paste it up here from the "text" promt.

[tsunam]

okie usr, go to your /var/log file and you should have a xf86config.log file there...copy that to here so we can see exactly what errors xfree is getting and causing it not to startup

[usr_208]

ok i dont know how to copy from the text prompt. i recently uninstaled red hat 9 and put on mandrake 10. im going to re-install red hat and the bootloader on the beginning of that partition only and hopefully i can boot both and i can copy the file from mandrake.

[usr_208]

well hmm. installed this time and works fine. oh well. back on Red Hat again thanks for the help anyways