I have installed Linux on some machines in my office. Now luckyly all my hardware has always been detected by all Linux installations. I am using RedHat 6.0. Currently the problem I have is that 'X' (the GUI)does not start. My machine is Celeron 333MHz. HCL Busybee 2000. All the hardware is provided by HCL. 96 MB RAM(I got this specifically because I wanted to use VMware) The Sound card is Yamaha OPL3 -SAx (got instantly detected) CD ROM 48Xcreative, 1.2" and 1.44" FDD. 4.3 + 2 GB HDD(2 HDD's each having half the partitions for Win98) My display card is S3Trio 64V2-DX/GX(775/785). 2MB VRAM. Monitor LG Flatron795FT(17")(not the new USB port monitors ). No Network card, GVC 55.6KBps Modem.(External). I guess that covers everything. Now I started installing Linux RedHat 6.0on this machine. The installation got along fine till I came to the part where the X installation starts, the display card is detected properly, the monitor I selected 'Custom' option now my monitor has a Horiz. input from 30-96Khz, & Vert.50-160Hz capable of resolutions of upto 1600x1200. Here I tried selecting infact nearly all of the options. For any of the option the monitor blinks for some time and gives out a default option. After this when it is trying to start X nothing happens. The screen goes blank and for a long time nothing happens. I have tried Alt+F1/2/3/4/5/6/7, Cntrl+Alt+F12/3/4/5/6/7. many other things, nothing happens. Only thing that works is Cntrl+Alt+Del.It reboots the machine. I have tried installing RedHat 6.1 from th e PCQ CD but when it comes to the GUI part, same thing the machine just hangs. Linux has been installed. I can very well use the character interface. But no GUI. I have even tried running 'setup', 'Xconfigurator --expert' same problem. I have never encountered such a problem on any of my other 3 P200 PC's. What could be the problem?? My video display card works on other linux machine. So does the same monitor. So I guess there is no problem with both of those. My windows98 works very well(as well as windows can work that is!) on the same machine. Please help me out here. Without Linux I fell incomplete. Thanking you all there for reading so patiently. Parth: To subscribe / unsubscribe goto the site www.ilug-bom.org ., click on the mailing list button and fill the appropriate information and submit. For any other queries contact the ML maintener
