I currently am running a dual boot - xp and red hat 8. xp runs fine, but after the initial linux boot the redhat gui won't come up. The following is the error message:
"(EE)Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error: no screens found."
then it kicks me back to the text prompt. My video card is an onboard Intel 82845GL, I think, and I've had the same problem with two monitors so I think the video card is the problem. I tried the terminal command "linux 3 vga=789" and that didn't do anything. Any suggestions are very appreciated.
P.S. The monitor did work initially when I booted RH for the first time, but the resolution was 640x480 and the picture was "messed up" - icons disappearing, windows not disappearing entirely, etc. thanks.
I've read that Both RedHat 8 and Mandrake 9 don't properly detect the onboard Intel 845. Is there a linux-compatible driver I could download to fix this so I can run X? I have the windows drivers on cd, but I don't know of a way to have Linux read them.