I've installed Redhat Linux 8 on a box which has a Generic
nvidia GeForce4 and a monitor running at 1280x768 (an odd, widescreen resolution). The graphical installation process works fine but the system will not boot into X. It fails with DDCProbe errors and problems with the VESA driver. I think that the monitor does not provide DDC data back to the system.

From the shell, how do I configure a generic 1024x768 or lower VGA setting for X to boot into?

Cheers

L.

You should be able to select different resolutions when you configure X, with XF86Setup, Xconfigurator, etc. Try pressing ctrl-alt-'+' or ctrl-alt-'-' (that's control, alt and plus/minus :)), as that's how you change screenmode from X if there are any other resolutions configured in your X config.

Thanks Steve. The problem I have is that when I try to start X, I get a "Fatal Server Error - no screens found".

Running Xconfigurator from the shell doesn't get me anywhere, nor does Xsetup.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

What version of X is it? I forget the latest X config program (I don't like it either), also you could try with a generic SVGA instead of the VESA specific X-server and see if that gives you anything better.

X v4.2.0.

I'd love to be able to tell it to use a standard VGA driver but I have no clue how to do this from the shell!

Cheers

Lee.

Have you tried the generic frame buffer driver... fbdev? This was the only one which worked on my Hercules Prophet 4500.

There should be a symlink from a file called "X" on its own to the X server that it's using. You should be able to just symlink it to another X server, if there's one installed, otherwise you'll need to install the RPM from the installation CDs. It's a good idea to read all the X related man pages as it's a bit of a big beast.

there is a text configurator under redhat you can run, for the life of me I can't remember what it is!! I think I found it by reading the online redhat manual under configuration.

regards,

greg

Everyone loves configuring X, NOT. The GUI configuration is better than the command line one, but it's not very intuitive.

Basically no 'screens' means you've got no resolutions defined, quickest way is probably just add it yourself...


Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Hopefully the BBS hasn't munged that too badly and obviously you should have Monitor0 and Card0 already defined...

[Edited by Andrewza - 5/14/2003 8:30:15 PM]

Thanks all. Now working. Cheated and reinstalled using generic everything.

Next question :)

Linux box is on the LAN, solely devoted to being a test Apache box.

How on earth do I set it up (a) so that I can ping it as "testbox" from a Windows machine on the LAN (everything's DHCP), (b) I think that's it. Any sites developed will go in /htdocs/whateverthesiteis, so I assume that I can just browse to http://testbox/whateverthesiteis

I thought it would be easier than how I'm finding it!

you can:-

a) add "testbox" to your local hosts file (and any others you want/need to access it) with the IP address
b) add a WINS mapping for the testbox name and it's IP address
c) add a DNS record for it

Personally, I'd just update the hosts file or if you run a local DNS, add a record to that.

Stefan

As for your 2nd question, yes you can, but you'll need to specifiy the default homepage in the url for each website.

Or you can configure Virtual Hosts so that you can specifiy them by a simple url and it'll find the correct website within each folder

i.e.

www.company1.com = /htdocs/company1
www.company2.com = /htdocs/company2
www.company3.com = /htdocs/company3

.... and so on

Stefan