[lug] RedHat 7.1 installation

[D. Stimits]

Arlan Ramsay wrote:
> 
> I wanted to install it in order to get an easy firewall.  The
> installation seemed to go smoothly.  That program had no problems
> with its graphics displays.  I was going to use Gnome.  I have
> tried a text login and then run startx, and also a graphics login.
> Both ways give me one screen with a small terminal window, no pager.
> I don't know what window manager it is, but evidently not sawfish
> or fvwmx, twm, or any others I recognize.
> 
> The second (or third) time I installed it, I was careful to specify
> the exact video card (Diamond Stealth 3D 2000) and monitor (Viewsonic
> A70).  These were working just fine under the RH6.0 or 6.2 that I had
> before.
> 
> It seems unlikely but possible that my video card has a flaw.  What
> else?  All advice gratefully recieved.  This is on my home machine.

Check the log in /var/log/. Should be something like file name
XFree86.0.log, which will give you more information if you look for
anything that noted failure. The item of failure may not be what you
expected, because sometimes a seemingly unrelated detail is depended on
by the more obvious failure, which itself might not even be noted.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

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