I hv PIII 128MB RAM system with Red Hat 8.0. after installation of linux, I got GUI screen..but sometime back, I disabled GUI so I was getting only text mode. I changed some entries in /etc/inittab to get text mode. now I forgot. I want GUI screen again to configure LAN in that system. I changed the setting in /etc/inittab as follows and gave startx command but GUI not coming.
id:5:initdefault
getting error: fatal IO error 104(connection reset by peer) on X server after 0 requests.
Kindly help me in solving the problem.
Chandrasekhar

you do know that rh8 went "end of life" a very long time ago .

and might be way to old to support your lan hardware.

John he may be 'stuck' with older hardware..

bscsekhar, I'm not sure exactly what is causing the issue.. but maybe try either using the video/hardware tools rh had back then (kudzu?, hwdetect?, xconfigurator?..etc.).

Also, have you changed/updated your video driver since?

Many times a newer, or different driver will help.

Lettuce know

The line you added into inittab is missing a : at the end.

Add the following line to your inittab (and remove the current line):

In addition to this; take note of the following:

1. Red Hat 8 is a very old distro - which you should consider upgrading.

2. When you make changes to key configuration files (for example, inittab, grub.conf, fstab and so forth) consider backing up your original file; so that if you break your install; its possible to recover.

I don't believe this reasoning would hold for being on such an old distro.

His current hardware (with perhaps a little more RAM which is cheap) could even run Fedora 13: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...e_Requirements

Being on such an old version of Red Hat opens the OP up to security threats; as well as limits him/her to not being able to use the latest features in Fedora/RHEL.