Hi all,

I've got one question regarding red hat 8, ive installed it fairly painlessly but I think i have set it up with the wrong graphics card selection as it will not go into xwindow for me to log in, I can log in quiet happily using the text command line but as soon as i type startx it comes up with an error message error 104. Does anyone know of a way i can log in using vga only a bit like windows safe mode so i can change the graphics drivers.

thanks in advance

When logged in as root there are two command line otptions that you can use. The first 'xf86cfg' works through a simple GUI - it never works for my system. I prefer 'xf86config' - this is text only but works very well.
You will need to know about your monitor & video card to set it up; you can go through the xf86config routine and bail out at the end if you just one to look through the options once before doing it for real.
Hope this works for you

Once again the swimming pools of life had been tainted by the incontinent toddlers of fate

Thank you for the advice I will give it a try and let you know how i get on.

Ive used the xf86config programme, and after a little bit of experimenting its worked a treat. thank you very much for the advice. ive been a windows user for a good 12 years or so but my persiverance is paying off, i really love linux as an operating system and i think that it is a far better and more stable os.

Excellent - Result!
I am getting into Linux too - dual booting XP at the mo but hoping to eventually be totally Linux. Most things on my system seem to work better under Linux & I'm hoping the new 2.6 kernel will make that even more so.

Once again the swimming pools of life had been tainted by the incontinent toddlers of fate

whilst we are chatting about dual, boot how did you do that did you put xp on first and do you have both on the same physical drive with an xp partition and linux partitions. Also do you use Lilo or Grub to boot which one you want to use?

I have two hard drives. Linux is on the first partition of drive two, XP on the 1st partition of drive one. Windows was on first, certainly mandrake, Suse, Red hat & Slackware will all detect windows & allow dual booting. I have used grub & lilo, different distros have their favourite. I am currently using Lilo because that is what slackware uses. In slackware you will have to do your own partitioning from a prompt for the main & swap partitions: I use cfdisk, which is a graphical version of fdisk. Slackware will recognise the Linux partitions as so but also recognise the windows partitions & offer to make them available under Linux (at least for FAT32). If you use the automatic option Lilo will be configured dual booting (should that be duel booting as the 'which is best' fight will commence. Hope that isn't too much info

Once again the swimming pools of life had been tainted by the incontinent toddlers of fate

thanks for the info, im getting a 2nd hand laptop soon and i want it to dual boot as i have an incompatible adsl connection and wifi setup which linux doesnt seem to like.