On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 12:55:13PM -0800, Mete Kural wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> We bought a brand new PC and installed Red Hat 8.0 on
> it. The video card didn't work because there are no
> drivers for the on-board Intel 845 video card in the
> version of XFree86 shipped with Red Hat 8.0. On
> Intel's website it was recomended to download the
> latest CVS snapshot of XFree86. So I downloaded all of
> the binaries for the latest CVS snapshot of XFree86,
> which is 4.2.99.901. I installed all of the packages
> in that snapshot and overwrote my old configuration
> files.
>
> Now when I restart the computer, it goes into the X
> window environment but the message dialog box in the
> lower right corner keeps on printing "console log
> localhost.localdomain" over and over again and doesn't
> do anything else. The mouse stays as a sandbox and the
> system doesn't respond to anything.
>
> Do you have any suggestions what I may have done
> wrong? Should I not have overwritten the old
> configuration files? Why does the message box keep on
> printing console log localhost.localdomain over and
> over?
>
> I would greatly appreciate any help.
First of all, I suggest you talk to RedHat for support on stuff specific to
their distro, which is lots in your case.
You will probably need to create a correct config file using RedHats config
utility (no idea how that works).
Unfortunately I understand from your message you are not able to get into
a console to type any commands.
If RedHat boots with lilo you want to type the kernel name that normally
appears and type 'single' behind that line.
You should be able to login then, if that was unsuccessful; ask RedHat
support on how to get into your machine in single user mode.
When logged in; change your /etc/inittab to start in multiuser mode.
It is probably 'multiuser mode with xdm' at the moment.
This means changing the line to:
id:2:initdefault:
I don't know if RedHat also uses '2'
After rebooting you can login and configure your graphics card as usual.
Hope that helps.
--
Thomas Zander
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