Stuck before I start!

[drivle]

Hi
I've just installed RedHat 7.3 on an Athlon2000+ and Jetway266 motherboard with 256mb ram and Gigabyte gf1280 video card (32mb memory).

The installation seemed to go well and it appeared to detect all the hardware correctly.

But - when I removed the cdrom for the system to reboot - it got as far as localhost login, then, just as I was just about to enter 'root' (and my password) the screen started blinking at me.

I tried to use the bootdisk and the options given to me by the bootloader 'grub' - but as a complete newbie - I have no idea what to do.

help?
thanks,
d.

[drivle]

Just did a ctrl-alt-delete

before the pc re-booted I saw

"x respawning too fast"

I managed to get to the log-in prompt and run Xconfigurator - but absolutely none - of the combinations of frequencies or resolutions will work.

The strange thing is - during the redhat install process - the video mode was tested and it all worked.

Now I'm still stuck with this 'blinking' display..

Help (again???) please?

[drivle]

Yeah - I'm just as sick of seeing my name here as you are!


Hey, who knows, maybe I can keep posting to myself and create the longest ever single user thread?

Whoo - soddin' hoo!

Anyhow, posting this for anyone else in my unfortunate position(?) Its ridiculous of course - but at least I have a working linux box now.

Long story short....

Tried installing RH 7.1 (on top of the RH 7.3 mentioned above) - still got the 'blinking' display and the 'respawing too fast' message.

Installed RH 6.0 - it worked - *upgraded* (as opposed to fully installed) to RH 7.3 and everything works.

As an absolute newbie - why this worked is a mystery - if anyone could enlighten me - that would be great.

It also proves that it is possible for a newbie to get somewhere in Linux - even without help :o(

(wonder if it's my deodorant?)

hello? hello out there?
yawn....

[mdwatts]

Sorry to keep you waiting. I'm usually here around 5 hours a day, but had to go out after work last night and this is the first time seeing your question. Forgive me? :(

What video chipset is your video card based on? Nvidia?

First see what version of X you have

X -version

and then visit www.xfree86.org to see if the gf1280 is supported and by which version of X.

If the gf1280 is quite new, you may need to either use Redhat 8.0 which includes X4.2 or upgrade your existing X to X4.2.

What errors do you get with

startx