My monitor is a Komodo somethingorother. As far as I know there's only one Komodo monitor anyway. :-P I tried the xf86config and it got me nowhere, it still say "no screens detected." I'll try redhat-config-xfree86 and see where ethat gets me. Thanx, ES ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:24 PM Subject: Re: xfree on Redhat 8 > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Eric Scott wrote: > > >I have an ASUS motherboard with a built in Geforce 2 graphics system. > >The redhat 8.0 installer hangs on monitor probing. No problem, I just did > >"linux text skipddc" and the installer lads fine. But then the installer > >hangs on the xfree setup... or rather, it hangs when I try to test the xfree > >setup. The screen goes black, which would be expected with a bad monitor > >configuration. (I selected the exact model) But it never comes back. I can > >leave it for an hour to no avail. So I skip xfree setup in the install, and > >I can boot into the terminal via boot floppy (I prefer to use the mandrake > >boot loader, and I can't figure out how to load redhat from it. > > You haven't mentioned what your monitor is, so I can only guess. > If you're using a flat panel, you will have problems, as the "nv" > driver doesn't support flat panels properly in XFree86 4.3.0 or > earlier. There are other possibilities also, but without seeing > the X server log file and config file, only random shots in the > dark can be made, which isn't very useful. > > > >Any clues on how to get xfree working from here? > > My suggestion is to acquire Fedora Core 1, which is the current > community based OS offering from Red Hat, and contains the latest > XFree86 release, which may possibly resolve the problem. > > > >I'm super-newbie to Linux, and have just been playing around > >with Mandrake, Redhat, and Yellow Dog for about a year now. So > >be very detailed in your response; Thanx a million, > > There's not enough information been provided in order to give any > kind of highly detailed response. ;o) You might want to check > bugzilla for bug reports of the nature of the problem you're > having, and see what the results/responses are. > > Keep in mind however, that Red Hat Linux 8.0 and all older OS > releases are no longer supported by Red Hat, as of Dec 31, 2003. > Only Red Hat Linux 9, Fedora Core 1, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux > 2.1 and 3 are supported currently. > > Hope this helps. > > > > -- > Mike A. Harris > > > _______________________________________________ > xfree86-list mailing list > xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list > IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
