If you want my opinion, i'd say stick with the distribution's red hat server. XBF is a great thign don't get me wrong..but it screws up so many packages (or at least my copy did) that i'm STILL feeling the effects from it about 8 months later (just found out that ddd doesn't work on my machine because gdb is screwed, and i'm pretty damn sure I re-installed that package when I went to XBF). Anyway, i'd stick with the redhat server..it's not as nice from what I hear (i've not seen it) but It won't screw up any other packages on the system either. Douglas Wagner -----Original Message----- From: Saeid Zoonematkermani [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 21, 1998 11:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Configuring X (RHL 5.2)? Hi, I recently purchased an I3200 and attempted to install Linux on it this past weekend. I have installed Linux on Alpha boxes before so I did not think that this would be that much different. I got Red Hat 5.2 since it is supposed to have NeoMagic support and it did recognize the card during the installation. The installation was successful but the problem is that I can't start the X server, I just get a black screen. When I installed Linux on my Alpha, a proper XConfig file was produced during the installation and I have never had to tinker with it. I suspect that I gave the wrong refresh and/or sync rates for the monitor during this installaion. So I was wondering if any one has recently installed RHL 5.2 and how the X confgiuration was done. Should I forget about XFree86 and download the XBF package? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, - Saeid ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saeid Zoonematkermani Dept. of Physics & Astronomy State University of New York Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://ozone.ess.sunysb.edu/ Voice: (+1) (516) 632-8237 Fax: (+1) (516) 632-8742 --- http://nts.ml.org FAQ: http://www.ps.uci.edu/~tomba/inspiron/ http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/ List Archives: http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/maillist.html To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://nts.ml.org FAQ: http://www.ps.uci.edu/~tomba/inspiron/ http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/ List Archives: http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/maillist.html To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
