Today I received Red Hat nterprise WS from Red Hat

I installed Red hat Enterprise WS on my computer and the installation went well, however when rebooting after the installation the sofware does not start up in the X-windows enviremont.

I tried to let the computer search for the settings but it refuses to load the X-windows.

I have a graphic card : Hercules 3D Prophet RADION 9800
and the computer recognizes it as a ATI 9800 with 128 MB memory.

But I can not get the GUI running with these settings and I need the GUI otherwise this software is of no use for me.

Can someone help me out in giving me instructions from the root line how I can alter the settings so X-windows is starting.

Please reply!!!!!!!

regards

Hairy Bas

see the problem is that red hat doesn't have the driver for your card.
i don't know much about enterprise since most people just download the free version.
you could go to www.ati.com and fount driver 3.7.0 for linux.
you should login in text mode, then install the package by using "rpm -Uvh <packakge's name>"
For XFree86 version use "rpm -q XFree86" to see what you have.
However i want to ask you why did you why enterprise?
are u using it to do business stuff?

Hairy Bas,

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Regards.

Dear tricky Linux

Idownloaded from ati.com the latest driver named:

fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.7.0.i386.rpm

and burned 9in windows XP on a cd-r

I start Linux logged in as root and did the following:

#cd /mnt/cdrom2
#/mnt/cdrom2 ls (enter)
#/mnt/cdrom2 fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.7.0.i386.rpm
#/mnt/cdrom2 rpm fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.7.0.i386.rpm (enter)

after that the computer tried to install the driver but it went wrong
it eventually said "could not write modifications to file

What should I do.


regards

HB

Copy the file fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.7.0.i386.rpm to the /home directory. Then you can install the rpm by right clicking on it and selecting "install package" or you could open the terminal and cd to the /home directory.
From there, you can install the rpm with the command:
rpm -Uvh fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.7.0.i386.rpm

i say do it in terminal. becase it gaves your slightly more information on what's happening.