XF86configurator RH7.2 HELLPPP!!!

[Learninlinux]

Hello all: I really seem to have messed up with this one. My startx comand did not work, fatal error "no screens found", I ran the XFconfigurator, now all I get is a screen full of pixels after the intial start-up. Apache functions well in the background but i am unable to access the system, with the garbled mess on my screen. Help is really needed here. How do I get back to the normal command line interface. The inital start-up shows through aok. I get the start-up log on screen which shifts to the garbled mess immediatly. Thanks LearninLinux.... :mad: at myself...

[Icarus]

Whoa, how'd you do that??
Looks like this is a job for "Linux Rescue"! Get your RH 7.2 disk 1 and put it in the drive and reboot. At the first prompt type "linux rescue" and hit enter. This will mount your drive so you can dig around and edit the files, hopefully to fix it...here's my XF86config to help you out (I am using RH 7.2 with the nVidia drivers)
I would be looking mostly at the FontPath, 10 lines down here...

# XFree86 4.0 configuration generated by Xconfigurator

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

# By default, Red Hat Linux 6.0 and later use xfs

Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

# Module loading section

Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-buffering
Load "GLcore" # OpenGL support
Load "dri" # Direct rendering infrastructure
Load "glx" # OpenGL X protocol interface
Load "extmod" # Misc. required extensions
Load "v4l" # Video4Linux
# Load "pex5" # PHIGS for X 3D environment (obsolete)
# Load "record" # X event recorder
# Load "xie" # X Image Extension (obsolete)
# You only need the following two modules if you do not use xfs.
# Load "freetype" # TrueType font handler
# Load "type1" # Adobe Type 1 font handler
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "SAM1058"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30 - 70
VertRefresh 50 - 160
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation|GeForce 256 DDR"
Driver "nvidia"
BoardName "Unknown"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Linux Frame Buffer"
Driver "fbdev"
BoardName "Unknown"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "nVidia Corporation|GeForce 256 DDR"
Monitor "SAM1058"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection


Good luck!

[ 22 April 2002: Message edited by: mahdi ]

[Learninlinux]

Hello mahdi: I did the rescue, entered the XF86Config file and changed the color depth's only helped slightly, I am totally new to this and I am afraid/do not know, what to change in the file. Here are some stats; ATI radeaon 32mb sdr, generic monitor I am hoping to get 1024*768 70mhz with 56.5 Horz 75mhz pix clock info from the ATI cdrom.
Thanks LearninLinux :)

[Disc0stoo]

Hey, just FYI once you're in X and it's all screwed up you can kill it with ctl+alt+backspace. This works all the time (unless of course your keyboard stops responding). As far as your config goes there're plenty of programs that generate a XF86Config file for you, if Redhat's isn't working or something (I'm not familiar with Redhat, can't help ya there...) you could give one of the command line ones a shot. I think the best one's called xf86setup or something similar. I actually don't remember because once I get a perfect XF86Config I usually just back it up somewhere and use it forever (or until I get a new video card). Heh, I can't remember the last time I had to set up a new one.