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tabath

2002-10-24, 3:57 am

I've just installed Red Hat but was having problems with setting up the monitor for xwindow system. I have the model number and all the requiste info but nothing seemed to work....I actually had the thing sussed once but a power cut meant I lost the settings and couldn't remember them!

Anyway I decided to skip the xconfigurator step and have installed redhat 6.

The problem is I now want to setup the monitor settings so the Gnome desktop works.
At the moment when I startx Gnome loads but most of the screen is black and no text is visible.

Hope someone can advise
tabath

2002-10-24, 4:18 am

I have actually just read a thread below entitled xwinows problems.

Its says using xconfigurator or xf86config may help.
Well when looking t my manual it tells me I need to build an xf86config file with a text editor such as vi. Finally it mentions I can probe for setttings using the X server in a special mode but doesn't tell me how. My questions are
1)it seems a bit complicated writing the config file...I'm a newbie in this ield and have never used vi. Is this doable by some1 with little exp.
2)How do I run Xserver?

It is actually a bit more detailed in its explanation of xf86setup so for the moment I will be playing around with this

cheers
neuralfx

2002-10-24, 5:56 am

at the command line run "setup." If you can try to use what the setup programs probe finds, unless you know the exact specs of your monitor.
-neural
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