Not just slack and arch in defence of other distro's they all allow you to edit your config files via text, that what unix is all about "everything is a file". The typical user however is not able to tell what driver with drive his display and what the refresh rate of his monitor is.
On 9/4/06, Henry Kirya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
why not boot with a live cd like knoppix jsust so you can rip the parameters it has autodetected ie the xorg.conf file then install your redhat without x, and tweak its xorg.conf file by pasting the parameters knoppix discovered (if you are not using xorg then the file should be soething like xfree86.conf) particular attention should be given to resolution, modeline statemets, horizontral refresh rate and vertical sync values. that whjy i like distros like slackware and arch linus you get to do most things under the hood ;-) Henry JFL writes: > Francis Musinguzi wrote: >> Andrew, >> >> Being Brave I tried the text mode. This completed successfully, but the >> most annoying bit was that once the system booted comfortably, the system >> couldn't start the GUI nor allow me to use "Cntrl+Alt+F"keys. I just had >> to go back to the "next-next" OS after five failed installation. I even >> tried SuSE 10.0 and 9.1 without any sucess, though I would have preferred >> the FC4 I had at the time. The windows installation shows ATI Radeon >> Mobility 9000. >> > works on the d600 here.Suse 10,ubuntu and fc4. > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > way. > --------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
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