I have installed Red Hat 8.0 on my Compaq Armada V300. Since this machine is a laptop when I fist boot the machine after install it boots to command prompt. I then have to copy a XF86Config file to the /etc/X11/XF86Config area. The XF file I copy is a working file for my machine. After I copy it and reboot I am still unable to boot into the KDE environment because I am always booted to command prompt. A friend of mine has had the same problem but after he copyed the XF file and rebooted it loaded properly.

Please help if you can.

Thanks

What errors do you get when you run startx?

Dave

how do i run startx? if i just type startx it says command not found
if it helps when i installed redhat i only choose to install KDE and not GNOME or X Desktop.

What do you get when you type

which X

(that's a capital X) ?

Dave

/usr/bin/which: No such file or directorY

OK, somehow (and I'm not entirely sure how) you've managed not to install X when you installed Red Hat.

X is needed for *any* graphical interface - KDE, Gnome, whatever, so how you got KDE installed without the installer complaining about the absence of X is a mystery.

2 ways to solve this:
1) install X from the command line, off the RedHat CDs - problematic, as X is a complex system, and you might have to install KDE, as I have doubts that it is installed.
2) re-install RedHat.

If you go for 2, you might want to consider installing Gnome as well, since some programs (quite a few actually) won't run unless it is present.
So, you should select X, KDE and Gnome when you're installing, unless there's a particularly good reason not to.

Dave

thanks ill try that.
thanks for the help