[pvc9]

Robbie,
NP

Hope Naseer's problem can also be solved soon.

[Naseer]

Pvc9,

I am using only Linux not the dual Operating System in it.
My problem is with the display card, as I have confirumed from Compaq that the compaq systems are built only for windows 9x and 2000 Professional only. I support Linux only CUI not both CUI and GUI.

Hope so this information will help you.

Thanks and Regards,

Naseer

[pvc9]

Thats better. Glad that you were able to know the exact info and also for the update about the card.

[codejockey]

Although Compaq may not "officially" support Linux, you are still likely to be able to run it (unless your hardware is very odd). You might check /var/log/messages, /var/log/kernel, /var/log/syslog and /var/log/XFree86.0.log for clues about your server problem.

Note that startx is usually a shell script; you can obtain additional diagnostic information by running it using the -x option (sh -x /path/to/startx, usually /usr/X11R6/bin/startx).

Hope this helps.

[pvc9]

codejockey,
Nice to see your reply. Appreciate all the info.

Naseer,
You might want to re-check with what codejockey suggested.
Just for a trial may be.

[lynch]

Hi,Naseer.
When you say you installed Linux 7.0 ,what distribution are you referring to?Red Hat or SuSE ,for instance?
Is the video card a Matrox G200 AGP?If so, here's what I found at the Red Hat HCL page.Looks like you need the "xf86_svga" xserver and the "matrox" driver-both of which are on the installation cd.HTH
lynch