Blank video and login problem

LocalFruit · 11-14-2004, 03:40 AM

I am an absolutely newbie at Linux. I have installed RedHat 9.0 into my system using text mode, because with GUI mode, it gave me a blank screen while installing.
After rebooting the system, it still gave me a blank screen, so I booted into the text mode and it is asking me for my localhost login and password.
As far as I know, I never set up any login ID and password during the installation, so why the hell is system asking me for the login id and password.
Can someone please help me, I am really close to giving up on Linux OS.

n0sr · 11-14-2004, 03:49 AM

If you haven't set up any users yet, then you need to log in as root. You should be able to run

Code:

adduser

to set up a profile for yourself.

LocalFruit · 11-14-2004, 03:55 AM

It worked!!!
Many thanks for that.

n0sr · 11-14-2004, 03:57 AM

No problem! Sorry, I don't run Red Hat, but I think you may need to configure X before the GUI stuff will run. If you're logged in as root, try running

Code:

xf86configure

If that doesn't work try

Code:

xorgconfig

n0sr · 11-14-2004, 03:59 AM

Oh yeah... have you set your root password yet? If not you may want to run

Code:

passwd

and set that up too!