launching Windows X

[cef]

Fairly new to Linux, dont know a lot of the commands yet

installed Red hat 9 the other day with out a hitch until i try to launch gui with startx

here is part of the error message:

Fatal server error:
no screens found

XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

I have an NVIDIA graphics card and i think the display might have something to do with the problem but i dont know how to alter ANY settings with Linux

I have also tried "editing" the XFconfig86 file but i once again am clueless.

any and all help would be greatly apreciated.

[Void Main]

Did you install the nVidia Linux driver from the nVidia web site? If you did you'll need to edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config and change a couple of things. If you didn't install the nVidia driver from the nVidia web site then it should have worked if you configured X at install time. If you did not install the nVidia driver from the web site then you should be able to run the "redhat-config-xfree86" from the command line (as root) to configure it.

If none of the above helps then you'll want to look through your /var/log/XFree86.0.log file for specific error messages.

[Griffin518]

Did you install the nVidia Linux driver from the nVidia web site? If you did you'll need to edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config and change a couple of things. If you didn't install the nVidia driver from the nVidia web site then it should have worked if you configured X at install time. If you did not install the nVidia driver from the web site then you should be able to run the "redhat-config-xfree86" from the command line (as root) to configure it.

If none of the above helps then you'll want to look through your /var/log/XFree86.0.log file for specific error messages.

I seem to remember having issues, circa RH8/9 with dual-head video cards... are you by chance using DVI to connect to an lcd? I use DVI with mine, and I remember I had to comment some things out in /etc/X11/XF86Config in order to get it to work right. Might have been an ATI thing, but I doubt it.

-Griffin-

[Griffin518]

Here's an old post of mine describing what I was talking about... fairly simple solution, but I don't know if this will help or not:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/1/2003/05/3/58313