I'm new at using Linux. I have Red Hat 9 and I made the computer to run it on.the below are the parts:

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ABIT nForce2 IGP Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU, Model "NF7-M" -RETAIL
Specifications:
Supported CPU: AMD K7 Duron/Athlon/Athlon XP Processors
Chipset: nForce2 IGP + MCP
FSB: 333/266/200MHz
RAM: 3x DIMM for Dual-Channel DDR333/266/200 Max 3GB, 2x DIMM for Dual-Channel DDR400 Max 2GB
IDE: 2x UltraDMA 133 up to 4 Devices
Slots: 1x AGP 8X/4X, 5x PCI
Ports: 2xPS2,1xCOM,1xVGA,1xLPT,SPDIF Out,6xUSB2.0(Rear 2),1xLAN,Audio Ports
Onboard Audio: 6-Channel AC97 CODEC
Onboard Video: GeForce4 MX GPU
Onboard LAN: 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet
Form Factor: ATX
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AMD Athlon XP 2600+ "Barton", 333MHz FSB, 512K Cache Processor - Retail
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Alps Black 3.5inch Floppy Disk Drive, Model DF354H121F, OEM

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Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model WD800LB, OEM Drive only
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NEC Cd-RW
256mb kingston DDR

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ANTEC Life Style Series Black Case With 380W Power Supply, Model "SONATA"
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So I installed Red Hat 9 everytime I type startx to enter my Desktop I get this Error:

Fatal Server error
no screens found

When reporting a problem related to a server crash please send the full server output, not just the last message this can be found in the log file "/var/log/Xfree86.0.log
please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org

X10: Fatal IO error 104(connection reset by peer) on Xcover "0.0
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining

[ root@local host root ]#

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Thanks for any help

Could you post your XF86Config file? (Not sure where it is for Red Hat products, try /etc/X11/XF86Config.) The problem might be somewhere in that file.

What does your xf86config file look like, there will just be one setting to be changed in there. The file is located at /etc/X11/XF86Config, you might need to change the video driver, I see you have a NVIDIA graphics adapter, this requires the NVIDIA drivers. You could try the vesa driver at 16 bit color till you get the NVIDIA drivers installed.

Forgot to mention you might want to try the following command as root to set up the driver and XF86, redhat-config-xfree86, I can't remember if that is the right command, you can look through /usr/bin for the command at a terminal:
cd /usr/bin
ls redhat*

This should bring up all the custom settings commands for Redhat.

HTH

Ok not there yet but getting close thanks to you guys.

when I enter : /etc/X11/XF86Config
I get : -bash: /etc/X11/XF86Config

on to the next command,

when I enter : redhat-config-xfree86
I get : *ddcprobe returned bogus values:
ID : None
Name: None
Horizsync: None
Vertsync: None

THEN it goes into a Dialog window with a blue background!!!!!!!!!!

inside of the dialog window is the following:


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DISPLAY | Advanced
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| |
| __________ |
| | | |
| |_________ | |
|_________________________ |

Unknown monitor with NVIDIA Geforce 4 MX (generic)

Resolution Color Depth

800 x 600 Thousand colors

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OK under the Advance tab I get the following:

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Monitor type : Unknown monitor
Horizontal Refresh Rates (KHZ): 31.5-37.900001525878906
Vertical Refresh Rates (HZ) : 50.0-70.0
Configure

DPI (Physical Resolyion) : Unknown

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Video card type: NVIDIA Geforce 4 MX (generic)
Memory Size : 32 megabytes
Driver: nv
Configure
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|_| Enable Hardrive 3D Accelereation

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BTW the " _
|_| Enable Hardrive 3D Accelereation"
wasn't highlight, so I couldn't check the box.

Under configure , the one for the video card option
I get the following:
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Video card type : NVIDIA Geforce 4 MX (generic)
Driver : nv
custom Memory size
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|Probe video card |

Special options:





Add options Remove options
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That's it, so My next Question is should I use the "Probe video card" ??

And also I tried to configure my Monitor
my monitor's name wasn't listed ( I have a KDS 17" )

By default it was listed as being generic

Thanks for the help so far
PLEASE give me more !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!












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Where you see it saying driver nv, change that to vesa, Redhat 9 nv driver didn't work well with a GeForce card. This should allow you to have a desktop, then you can go and download the NVIDIA drivers from NVIDIA and follow the instructions or do a search on these boards for NVIDIA driver.

HTH

Let us know how you make out.

If you know the highest resolution and refresh rate your monitor can do, you can change the Generic entry to Generic 1280x1024@60Mhz, for example.

If you don't know the highest resolution and refresh rate your monitor can do, you should look up the specs in your monitor manual or on the Internet and enter the specifications manually (IIrc RH will let you do that, but whether it works is another issue). If worst comes to worst, you can put the horizontal and vertical sync ranges into /etc/X11/XF86Config by hand, which should definitely work.

If you don't have a manual, and had to look up the specs of your monitor on the Internet, write them down. You'll need them whenever you need to reconfigure X, which you will, for example, need to do once you install the nVidia proprietary drivers (I have an ATI card, and those drivers include a script to configure X for the ATI card, and I have to specify my monitor's specs, so I would imagine that nVidia might have something similar).

Changing the driver looks like that did the trick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was able enter the desktop!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just played around with a few programs, like Openoffice.org
and the Grip.


I DIDN'T have any speakers hooked up , so I don't know about the sound yet.

I have a Modem , but I have yet to install it.

I still have a lot of questions , Like what's the difference between a .ogg file and a MP3 file???

Thanks to all who helped me!
I'm sure I'll be back.