Re: [Nolug] Help!

There maybe a command called xf86config. It comes with the XFree86
distribution but it is old and ancient and doesn't work well and will ask
you a lot of questions you don't know. stick with conservative options
though... even if you get it running at 640x480 w/16 colors, that's enough
to get redhat-config-xfree86 running.

>From what i understand, Redhat has been moving config commands to
redhat-config-<whatever>. Xconfigurator was replaced with that GUI only
app, which is pretty stupid to me.

Do you have another machine on your network? You could boot knoppix on
another machine, ssh to the box with problems, and run
redhat-config-xfree86. The display should be redirected back to the
knoppix box if X forwarding is setup in sshd_config.

ray

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 c_matthews@cox.net wrote:

> ok I am getting real close, does anyone know how to get
> 'redhat-config-xfree86' to run in text only mode? When typeing this in,
> it takes me to a GUI interface, and I cannot view it. I think soon as I
> am able to view this in text, I will be able to fix it. But I am not
> sure though. I will be trying the other suggestions also, but I want to
> try this first. -Craig
> >
> > From: <jdtiede@bellsouth.net>
> > Date: 2003/07/25 Fri AM 10:33:24 EDT
> > To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> > Subject: Re: Re: [Nolug] Help!
> >
> > Try ls -l /etc/X11/XF86Config to find out who the owner is. If you don't know the password for the owner, root can reset it (under KDE, System Settings | Users and Groups | Users | Properties).
> > ============================================================
> > From: <c_matthews@cox.net>
> > Date: 2003/07/24 Thu PM 11:59:20 EDT
> > To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> > Subject: Re: Re: [Nolug] Help!
> >
> > ok so this is my progress.....nothing. Sure I am now in the text area (crtl-alt-F1) but running 'XConfigurator'does nothing, so i have been googleing and came accross this '/etc/X11/XF86Config' but i am not sure if this will work, mainly because it says I do not have permission for this, even though i am in as root. Another thing I tried is 'redhat-config-xfree86' and nothing happens. anyone else have any ideas?
> > -Craig
> > >
> > > From: "Dave Prentice" <prentice@instruction.com>
> > > Date: 2003/07/23 Wed PM 11:31:46 EDT
> > > To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> > > Subject: Re: [Nolug] Help!
> > >
> > > Did you try a ctrl-alt-F1 to see if you can get a text mode prompt? If
> > > so, you might be able to run XConfigurator to get the graphics mode
> > > working again.
> > > Dave Prentice
> > > prentice@instruction.com
> > > http://www.originsresource.org
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: c_matthews@cox.net <c_matthews@cox.net>
> > > To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> > > Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:15 PM
> > > Subject: [Nolug] Help!
> > >
> > >
> > > >Ok so I installed that WineX thing, no problems there. Once I had
> > > it, it told me to run a check on my graphics card. I did and it came
> > > out negative, so it told me to change the config. Well I switched to
> > > my M$ side and got all the information about my graphics card.
> > > (GeForce 2, 32MB etc) Back in the linux box i searched for my display
> > > options, and under that i looked for my graphics card. I found it,
> > > and after applying it, it told me to reboot so the changes would take
> > > place. Did this and when it went back to the "blue curve" interface
> > > (i'am using red hat 8) all i could see was red and black and green
> > > vertical lines. Could not see anything else. No way for me to change
> > > the display options back. What do I do??? Is there a way to fix this
> > > without re-installing linux? Some one please help
> > > >-Craig
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IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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