xWin display prob with deskpro 5120

[squirrelradio]

Hi all,

I'm a linux newbie, I've installed RedHat 7 on my old compaq deskpro 5120. It installed fine but when I try to run xwin I get a double image that is glitchy and doesn't refresh.
I've tried over and over to change settings in Xconfigurator but with no luck.

Any help is appreciated!
Thanks

(the compaq video is built into the motherboard)

[mdwatts]

What is the video chipset? How much video memory?

Have you tried www.xfree86.org to see if the video card is supported by whatever version of X that is included with Redhat 7?

[squirrelradio]

I believe its a Cirus Logic 5436 with 1mb memory.

I was using XFree86 version 3.3.6. and it didn't work
so tonight I upgraded to version 4.0.2, now I have a new problem...

I can see the msg when testing in Xconfigurator and it works fine, but now when I boot into Xwin instead of my nice Gnome desktop I get a couple weird command prompt windows and a clock, and nothing else on my desktop.. Any ideas??

:confused:

Thanks

[mdwatts]

That would be just plain X running with no DM/WM.

Try creating a .xinitrc in your home directory with a single line

cd ~
touch .xinitrc
echo gnome-session >> .xinitrc

[squirrelradio]

Thanks for all your help I'm finally up and running!
:D

[mdwatts]

Glad we could help.

Enjoy...