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Old 03-07-2010, 12:00 AM   #1
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Could not enable GUI in RHEL5


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I inserted the command system-config-display to configure the graphics in rhel5.. I get the output like could not start X server on card 0,trying with a fresh configuration.. Again error comes like could not start X server on card 0 , X server failed.. What should i do to enable GUI...
 
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Can you post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
 
Old 03-07-2010, 05:20 AM   #3
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And may be 1) show the output of the command :

lspci -vnn | grep -iA 1 vga

2) Tell the name and version of the monitor used.

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