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migzilla
09-20-2002, 03:53 AM
Hate to bother but I got a question I installed linux on a machine I put together with some parts I had laying around well Red hat installs okay but when it trys to boot in to Xwindows or is it Xserver the resolution is all off with a square in the middle then it locks up. Here's what I got.

Intel PII 450
128 megs of ram
ensonique 16bit pci sound card
intel isa 10base card
cheap keyboard
seriel mouse
and a gwainward Cardexpert 4 meg agp Trio3d/2x card
generic board

well any imput is appreciated.

Icarus
09-20-2002, 11:55 AM
You'll need to reconfigure the X-server. Boot into text mode and type "setup" as root. Then select the XConfigure at the top. This should walk you through it and hopefully detect your monitor and video card off the bat...if not you'll need to look around the web for display info for your monitor and some hard stats on the card

migzilla
09-24-2002, 11:45 AM
Well I got Redhat loaded and working the problem was the video card. Its gwainward Cardexpert 4 meg agp Trio3d/2x card. I guess red hat doesn't like the drivers are there but I had no luck getting it to work correctly so I replace it with an Old sis 6326 4meg pci card I had. I would like a agp video card any body know a good cheap one that will work with red hat 7.3. I was looking at a cheap sis 315 card or a powercolor Evil kyro but I have a clue as to whether they are compatible or not. Any help is much appriciated.

Icarus
09-26-2002, 04:07 PM
Get an nVidia GeForce 2 MX400 64mb (http://www.pricewatch.com/1/37/3685-1.htm) , nVidia makes great drivers for Linux and starting at $37...it's a good deal