problems with Red hat (or am I just stupid?)

[jpbtennisman]

I just installed Red Hat 7.0. When I installed it, it said something about partitions, blah blah blah, so I told it to install right onto my Windows drive. I finally get it booted up, and i have about 3/4 of a display and the top of the display is sitting at the bottom, and i can't figure out how to change my resolution.

I also can not access the rest of my hard drive (folders I had in windows like My Documents, etc), which SuSE evaluation allowed me to do. Note that I am using KDE desktop. How do I do those things?

[FoBoT]

see if this NHF (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/x-windows/xf86config.html) answers some questions about configuring X windows

if you told the installer to put red hat onto a partition that had windows, are you sure you didn't overwrite the windows install, with the red hat install??

anyway, here is another NHF (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/misc/winhd.html)
about accessing a windows partition from a linux install on the same drive

[smile]

1) login as root and run "Xconfigurator" to adjust display resolution.

2) I guess if you did not customize install, you can not access windows drive

[jpbtennisman]

Thanks fobot, I managed to mount Drive C, but not Drive D (my HD is split up into 2 partitions)...drive C was /dev/hda1 but i don't know what drive D is...is there a way to find out?

Now after this I can only imagine how hard it will be to mount my FireWire drive...


Also, Xconfigurator did not work. It seems that it is giving me 800x600 of desktop space to work with, but it isn't all visible at once. I have a smaller square that cuts off the desktop at a point until I move the mouse over to the edge, and I have a portion of the top of the screen at the bottom. Maybe it thinks my monitor is too small.

[ 12 April 2001: Message edited by: J.P. Balletta ]

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by J.P. Balletta:
<STRONG>...drive C was /dev/hda1 but i don't know what drive D is...is there a way to find out?

Now after this I can only imagine how hard it will be to mount my FireWire drive...</STRONG>

drive d is almost for sure /dev/hda2, but to check it try
cat /proc/partitions

i just used that during a peanut linux install, don't know if it is the same for rh

or maybe try

dmesg

have no idea if there is any way to use a firewire drive with linux/rh, but if you make it work, you might want to write a NHF on how you did it, just to help out the next dude ;)

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by J.P. Balletta:
<STRONG>seems that it is giving me 800x600 of desktop space to work with, but it isn't all visible at once.</STRONG>

try starting out with a different/smaller display resolution, to see if you can get it working, then you can adjust it later

i like to start out with 800x600, 16 bit, then change it to suit

[jpbtennisman]

don't say Linux boxes don't crash..mine just went berserk after i unplugged the power (it is a laptop).

So far it isn't working, I'm rebooting it now

[FoBoT]

uh, you didn't say it was a laptop

[jpbtennisman]

Does Linux not work with laptops?

[FoBoT]

i have never tried to load it onto a laptop

i just said that cause i have read that it is more difficult on laptops (at least as far as X windows goes, i think)

in other words, i cannot probably help other than to point to some docs

the redhat website might have more info on laptop installs/problems

[jpbtennisman]

I'll be sure to try that...now startx doesn't work...gives me an error...

[trekker]

I did successfully installed Redhat 7.0 on my laptop... it just needs more work to get everything working. You might want to check out http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/mirrors.html for more info.

I'm not too sure about this. I think I saw an option for Laptop installation together with Workstation and Server Installation for the Wolverine installation. If you are adventurous enough, you might want to try wolverine with the laptop install? Again, not very sure about this Laptop option.

[bdg1983]

Can't help much unless you post the error.

For the problem (if you can get back in) with the screen display. Try adding Virtual 0 0 to your /etc/XF86Config.

Section "Screen"
Driver "SVGA"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1600x1200/70Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1600x1200/70Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1600x1200/70Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200/70Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1600x1200/70Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1600x1200/70Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1600x1200/70Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1600x1200/70Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200/70Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1600x1200/70Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection

[zappy]

Linux works very well on laptops and Redhat is probably one of the best distros to do it with. Don't mean to sound rude but using Linux requires that you pay attention to detail. And details is what we will need if you plan to get any kind of resolution from this board.