Hi,

My knowledge of linux/x windows is limite so I apologise if I get anything wrong.

I am running dual boot WinME and Red Hat 7.1. It has been working fine for a year or so. I recntley went to start linux for the first time in quite a while and got the following problem:

After login I get a screen allowing me to select a display manager (I think this is a feature added to the version I've got by my university) with various choices GNOME, KDE etc or a console login. After choosing any of the display managers (or startx after doing a console login) the screen goes blank and stays blank although a signal is reaching the monitor because I have a green light. I cannot do anything else and have to reset.

The only thing I have changed on my machine recently is that I installeda Gefroce 4 graphics card (previously had onboard graphics) but removed it again after a day or so because it kept on causing my WinME to crash. I never started linux during the time I had the gfx card in and the BIOS settings are all the same as before now I am back on onboard gfx.

Someone suggested to me that I just needed to re-configure X so I tried this using Xconfigurator but it kept throwing an error to do with permissions on sysconfig/mouse or something. I managed to reconfigure using xf86config but now when I try and start x I get the error below and it returns me to the login screen.

I think I may have made the problem worse because I did not back up the old x settings (I know i'm an idiot!)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. (would installing a new XFree86 be of any help?)

Thanks

my error message:

XFree86 Version 3.3.6a / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: February 17 2001
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer
than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
problems. (see <URL removed>)
Operating System: Linux 2.2.17-8smp i686 [ELF]
Configured drivers:
SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 1):
s3_savage, NV1, STG2000, RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2,
RIVA ULTRA TNT2, RIVA VANTA, RIVA ULTRA VANTA, RIVA INTEGRATED,
GeForce 256, GeForce DDR, Quadro, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 GTS (rev1),
GeForce2 Ultra, Quadro 2 Pro, GeForce2 MX, GeForce2 MX DDR,
Quadro 2 MXR, ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i, ET4000W32i_rev_b,
ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p, ET4000W32p_rev_a, ET4000W32p_rev_b,
ET4000W32p_rev_c, ET4000W32p_rev_d, ET6000, ET6100, et3000, pvga1,
wd90c00, wd90c10, wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, wd90c33, gvga, r128, ati,
sis86c201, sis86c202, sis86c205, sis86c215, sis86c225, sis5597,
sis5598, sis6326, sis530, sis620, sis300, sis630, sis540, tvga8200lx,
tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga8900d, tvga9000,
tvga9000i, tvga9100b, tvga9200cxr, tgui9400cxi, tgui9420, tgui9420dgi,
tgui9430dgi, tgui9440agi, cyber9320, tgui9660, tgui9680, tgui9682,
tgui9685, cyber9382, cyber9385, cyber9388, cyber9397, cyber9520,
cyber9525, 3dimage975, 3dimage985, cyber9397dvd, blade3d, cyberblade,
clgd5420, clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, clgd5428, clgd5429, clgd5430,
clgd5434, clgd5436, clgd5446, clgd5480, clgd5462, clgd5464, clgd5465,
clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, clgd7541, clgd7542, clgd7543,
clgd7548, clgd7555, clgd7556, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e, cpq_avga, mga2064w,
mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag200, mgag100, mgag400, oti067,
oti077, oti087, oti037c, al2101, ali2228, ali2301, ali2302, ali2308,
ali2401, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440, video7, ark1000vl, ark1000pv,
ark2000pv, ark2000mt, mx, realtek, s3_virge, AP6422, AT24, AT3D,
s3_svga, NM2070, NM2090, NM2093, NM2097, NM2160, NM2200, ct65520,
ct65525, ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545, ct65546, ct65548,
ct65550, ct65554, ct65555, ct68554, ct69000, ct64200, ct64300,
mediagx, V1000, V2100, V2200, p9100, spc8110, i740, i740_pci,
Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, i810, i810-dc100, i810e, smi, generic
(using VT number 7)

XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(--) no ModulePath specified using default: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
dbe: Unknown error loading module

Config Error: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config:48

SubSection "extmod"
^^^^^^^^^^^
Module section keyword expected
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
logout

Just a guess.

This may be a problem where your graphics card does not have enough memory. Does your onboard gfx "borrow" main memory. If so, when you went back to the onboard gfx did it get as much memory as it originally had? Or, more importantly, does it have enough memory to support the screensize and color depth that you specified in x86config?