Hello everyone! As a LINEX newbie I hope I can find some useful advise from fellow users concerning configuring the X window environment. I recently installed Hed Hat 7 on an IBM Pentium 120 (40 RAM) with a IBM G40 monitor and Trident video chip. The system worked beautifully in graphics mode for about a month. One day I started up the system and was informed that the CMOS battery was dead so I replaced it and returned the system to factory defaults which I have never changed. I booted up the system and when I came to the X windows login screen my mouse and keyboard were completely locked out. The system froze and there were no LED indicators acive. The keyboard was dead. I reinstalled LINEX but could only use the text mode. Linus installed ok for text mode operation but every time I run XConfigurator it fails to work even though it has correctly identified the Trident card (actually a graphics co-processor on the motherboard) and the monitor model. I have been using LINUX in text mode for a week now. Although this is not my main computer I wanted to learn about the LINEX and I have learned a great deal about the OS but I would rather have the GUI back. Why does it not work now? Does it have something to do with video memory (1 Meg)? I have tried tweeking the config file and I was able to get a low resolution VGA screen but the image was to large and only displayed a few words on a some page I could not understand. The mouse and keyboard did not work here either. Has anyone run into a situation like this? Thanks David N. Christenson _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
