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Originally posted by onlyhuman9
>Good day everyone.I just recently installed redhat 7.0, >and I am facing quit a few problems with it.As they are a >few in number I will describe them in order.
>First I will describe my system.I have a pentium 2 450 >MHZ,with a tnt2 m64 32 mb, a creative vibra sound card,128 >mb ram, and a 33.6k isa modem.
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>1)GNOME:
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>When I installed redhat 7.0 for the first time I selected >graphical login and selected gnome,but when the system >booted for the first time gnome failed to run,and gave a >message saying a process has been murdered mysteriously.But >second time around I installed it again by selecting kde >and it runs fine.I have also tried enlightenment and window >maker which run fine as well.So why isnt gnome running?
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Is Gnome now installed? If not, install it again (kpackage e.g. as root) and do a "switchdesk-gnome" under kde. Is it working now? If not, edit your /etc/inittab and change the default-runlevel to "id:3:initdefault:". Then edit your
".Xclients-default" in your users home-dir and change it to
"exec gnome-session". Okay, reboot your box and after you logged in, type "startx". Is it working now? If not, what failure-messages do you see on the terminal?

>2)Applications not running from inside kde:
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>the second problem is that I want to get on the net through >linux so that I can get applications utilities and learn >the os properly.but I cant configure my dial up connection >as I have tried to run dial up network application from >inside kde and it doesnt run after clicking on the >application name from the k menu.There are alot of other >applications which are not running from the K menu, should >this be happening and if so then what is the use of a >graphical gui?I have run modemtool from the consol but how >to configure dial up connection through consol?
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What do mean? You have tried "K --> Internet --> DialupConfiguration"? And it don't work?
You can hack /etc/ppp/... and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts by hand if you want to.
Sorry, need more info to help!
What other apps aren't running? There are some apps that can only be started with root-permissons! And they won't start without giving you a failure message!

>3)sound card not working:
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>the creative sound card vibra is not supported but can it >be configured manually? and if so would it get damaged by >doing so?

I don't know the crative vibra. "sndconfig" didn't found your sound-card? If not, you might have to rebuild your kernel and add the right modules for your card.
Sorry.

>4)Quit a few gui's which one should I use:
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>I have ran 4 guis upto now and all look very pleasing,but >which one should I run and is the most benificial one?
>I shall be thankfull to get replies to these as I want to >use linux but am restricted....

Just use the one you like most! I prefer KDE, but Gnome is also nice. It also depends on your hardware-equipment. FVM runs even on a 486. But as soon you get deeper into LINUX, you will find yourself starting a GUI and then opening a lot of shells and .....forget the graphics stuff :-))))

hope this might help you a little