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From: Steve Harp on 28 Jul 2007 13:56
Hi All,

I'm trying to setup Red Hat v9 on a ThinkPad T43. Everything seems ok
except the X Windows setup. I'm trying to configure KDE but am not
getting the settings right. The screen just goes blank when I try to
load X. I've tried updating the XF86Config file but I;m not getting
it right. Has anyone successfully set this up and, if so, could you
post the settings for Monitor, Device, etc.

Thanks for any help,
Steve
From: Stefan Patric on 29 Jul 2007 02:29
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:56:15 -0400, Steve Harp wrote:

> I'm trying to setup Red Hat v9 on a ThinkPad T43. Everything seems ok
> except the X Windows setup. I'm trying to configure KDE but am not
> getting the settings right. The screen just goes blank when I try to
> load X. I've tried updating the XF86Config file but I;m not getting it
> right. Has anyone successfully set this up and, if so, could you post
> the settings for Monitor, Device, etc.

Is there a reason for using such a old version, circa 2003, of Redhat?
Try a more contemporary LiveCD like Fedora 7 or Ubuntu or PCLinuxOS 2007,
and see if they work. Your system may just be too new for Redhat 9 to
handle correctly without lots of tweeking.

Anyway, I've had the X configure problem numerous times on many different
machines. It's usually caused by the X configure utility reading your
video hardware incorrectly. The only solution I've found is to edit the
X config file manually correcting the errors. Just running the utility
again won't correct the errors.

Does your system drop to a terminal when the X server fails? Can you
post the XF86Config file?

Stef
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