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h4wk 06-02-2003 07:04 PM

gui help
 
i just installed RH8 onto my single hard drive with a windows xp partition on the latter half of it

RH8 boots fine... into text mode despite the fact i selected graphic desktop mode.

need help... also need help editing grub.conf file... there is nothing in there when i try to edit it...

thanks
h4wk

kazuni 06-02-2003 07:07 PM

in the command line, try "startx"

see if u get errors pushing you back to the destop. if you do, can u tell us the message?

h4wk 06-02-2003 07:10 PM

thanks for prompt reply, ill go try it :D

h4wk 06-02-2003 07:13 PM

fatal server error:
no screens found

when installing rh8, my monitor wasnt automatically detected... so i selected what i think is the model from the list of makes and models...

maybe this is the problem...

help! :(

kazuni 06-02-2003 07:14 PM

hehe np, i am waiting for a ride home from school anyways :)

h4wk 06-02-2003 07:20 PM

1 more thing, i have a dual boot set up... or i am debugging it now... trying to fix a few problems...

when i boot windows xp pro... it says:

xmnt2002 not found skipping autocheck
autochk not found skipping autocheck

then it reboots...

i found another thread addressing this and attempted to do what that person did... and it didnt work

thanks

kazuni 06-02-2003 07:24 PM

xmnt2002 not found skipping autocheck
autochk not found skipping autocheck

u got partition magic installed? and u moved the programs? (deleted, uninstalled, different partitions?)

h4wk 06-02-2003 07:35 PM

i used partition magic, i didnt intentionally move the programs... i moved the windows partition the the end of my drive, to make room for the linux at the beginning...

also... i have another newbie question... i have been able to edit grub.conf in text mode in RH8, but am wondering how i save the changes i made.. thanks

h4wk 06-02-2003 07:46 PM

please help ASAP

thanks again

kazuni 06-02-2003 09:28 PM

which program did u use to edit?

you can write using vim or vi

press i to insert, esc to get out of insert mode, x to delete 1 character, :w to save, :q to quit (as far as u needed the commands)

h4wk 06-03-2003 08:00 AM

thanks for the commands... i need help with desktop mode... i used the command 'startx' and the error:

server error:
no screen found

a screen may have been found, but there are bad configurations (or something)

thnks for any help

kazuni 06-03-2003 08:09 AM

yeah, can u post your output? errors ?

Wynd 06-03-2003 09:01 AM

Try running xf86config as root.

h4wk 06-03-2003 05:11 PM

GREAT thanks everyone...

1 last thing, I still have 1 more error stopping me from starting xwindow:

(EE) No drivers available

that is referring to my geforce 4 card

i changed the line:
driver = "vesa"
to
driver = ""

because vesa wasnt working... and i dont know what to put there... any help plz

also i still have the xmnt2002 not found error for windows, need help with that too

THANKS!!!


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