It sounds like it is your video card. Try running Xconfigurator, XF86Setup.
Just type one of the two names at the prompt. These should help you to get
it working. After that, you may need to fine tune them. Use xvidtune.
Hope this helps. I am a newbie to Linux and had to mess around with it for
a while to get it working. You may want to try looking on the web about X
servers. Try the Xfree86 site. Mostly, just try to read as much info as
possible. Eventually, you may need to edit the XF86Config file and delete
and add things to get them working. You may want to write back to the board
with your video card and monitor, so someone who has it may be able to help.
Good luck.
Bret Craw
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lloyd Osten [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 7:11 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Re:
>
> 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.
