On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Fran wrote: >My machine hangs when I start the X Server (RedHat8.0) > >My configuration: > >AMD Athlon1700+ >Asus A7N266-VM >GeForce2 display on board >Realtek AL650 on board sound > >XFree86 -configure command will detect my card and creates the XF86Config >file in which the driver "nv" is specified. But if I start X the machine >hangs... the same problem occurs when I install the RedHat8.0 using GUI >there also the machine hangs.. i then installed the machine thru text >mode... can anyone help me Are you using GNOME or KDE? Try disabling your sound card first. As root, just type "X" at the commandline and see if the X server can start up all alone also. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com