[KLUG Members] New to os with boot up question...

[Wesley Leonard]

This is a pretty common issue here.

You just need to run a program called Xconfigurator as root.

Just login at the prompt and type Xconfigurator and follow the prompts.  It asks
you questions about your video card and monitor and stuff.  Then you can test
and see if it works.

good luck

david2@thulinfamily.com wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> My name is David Thulin, and I currently live in South Haven, Mi.
> I recently bought a new hard drive (40.0G Western Digital 7,200rpm
> drive), one Identical to the one I currently have Windows 98se on.
> I have a Asus via chipset motherbord with a AMD Athlon 850 processor.
> I have 512M SDRAM, Creative Labs PC512 Sound card, A 32M GeForce II
> video card, and a US Robotics 56K modem.
> 
> Now here's the problem. I ran the instal on Red Hat Linux 7.2 and
> everything went fine until I went to run the os for the first time.
> After solving some small problems I finally came to the log in, and
> no gooie...? It looked like "dos". I got the error that something
> "wine" failed...? Now, I don't know if it might be that the video
> didn't configure properly, (I have a Nvidia GeForce II NX card).
> Now here's the funny thing, the first time I tried to instal Linux,
> it wouldn't work at all... it would say something like "system error,
> insert systed CD and hit enter". But then I installed it by putting
> the hard-drive on another computer and it installed. When I put it
> back on my computer and re-configured the sound and video card, and
> that's when the Graphic display never showed. I'm in Florida right
> now, and when I get back home in the end of January, I'll play around
> with it at home and try to fix it by reconfiguring the Video. But the
> thing I couldn't figure out was how to get from the "dos" prompt to a
> place where I could reconfigure the video driver and try to get a
> graphic display again.
> 
> Well, if it is too complicated to help me with this via e-mail, can
> you send me a phone number and address where I can reach you, and let
> me know how much (if) you charge for some help...
> Thank you for your time.....
> 
> David Thulin
> 
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