According to Houghton, Glen: While burning my CPU. > > I just installed Redhat 5.1 on my Dell box for the first time today. I tried > running startx and my screen goes blank and I see nothing. I have to reboot > the computer at that point. My setup is: You should not need to reboot, if you do then you possably have some hardware conflict somewhere, what you could try is ctrl-alt-F2 F3 F4 to return to a normal text console, or try killing X with ctrl-alt-backspace. Others have pointed out methods of configuring X. > > Dell Dimension XP300 PII 300 Mhz > Dell 17" Monitor > STB 128 Velocity Card with 4 mb > 128 Megs Ram > 8 GB Maxtor Drive > > I have gone into Xconfigurator and set the Monitor as Generic, Video Card as > STB Velocity 128 (riva128), memory to 4mb and resolution to 8 bit 640x480 I > have tried other resolutions but thought I should start at the lowest to get > it going. > > Any suggestions appreciated! > > Glen Houghton > -- Regards Richard. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
