Joel Doucet wrote:
>
> hello,
> I keep trying to contact someone from linuxmandrake but nobody wants to
> responce to my e-mails, i hope a human can read this message and tell me
> what to do. I just purshased "The Complete Linux operating system"
> and i am having trouble with it. When i configure X windows,i have to
> select my monitor, and since my monitor isn`t in the list i chose custom,
> and with redhat 5.1, everything worked fine but when it says it will run
> the x server, it doesn`t work, i don`t know if its my monitor of my video
> card but it says there is a problem with the configuration and it gives me
> the option of quiting of changing my configuration, did i just get ripped
> of or can i do something about it?
I had that problem, too--something about there being an error in my X
configuration. But I tried it later by using "startx" (no quotes) and it
worked OK. I think it just might be an installation bug.
