Hi I just added another drive to my xp machine, and installed linux on it. The install went fine, except one part. I am able to boot from either system, but when setting up linux it didn't detect my video card(NVIDIA GEFORCE4 MX 420 WITH S VIDEO OUT) and it wasn't on the list, so i chose generic. What i found out is that i can only work from a command prompt. I am new and barely know any commands, i am looking into some books. What should i do at this point? Just to mention that i cannot see the linux drive from xp(XP-NTFS, Linux FAT). Should i download an image of latest version of linux and install that on top of the one now, or is there a way i can install the drivers for my card, so i can have a gui environment in linux to get familiar with it. Any help is appreciated. Thank You

You wont be able to see your drive in XP, cause XP doesn't recognise linux partitions. (or isn't able to read/write them.) But you'll be able in Linux to "mount" Windows partitions to view them, and write to them. (No NTFS write support yet though, so you can't write to XP drives yet who have the NTFS filesystem.) For setting up your Geforce I'd suggest to read up on XFree86 (enter after logging in: "man XFree86") I thought RedHat came with "XConfigurator",a command which opens a configuration dialogue. Maybe everything is already configured (generic) and you just need to enter "startx" to startup your X-Server (graphical environment)? Maybe this link wil help you on your way : ) http://linux.about.com/library/bl/open/newbie/blnewbie4.3.2.htm

Dimitris: You could try the VESA driver. It will probably get you going. The file you would need to edit is in the /etc/X11 directory (I am looking at a 9.0 install. I believe the "X11" directory is named slightly different in 7.2, but it has "X11" included in it's name.) In that "X11" directory there is a file, I think the name is XF86Config-4 (at any rate it is the only file with a "-4" in the name.) That is the one you need to edit and change the name of the video card section to vesa. In my RedHat 9.0 configuration it is listed as: Driver "vesa" VenderName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "VESA Driver (generic)" You should be able to edit it with vi. It takes a while to get used to vi, so I suggest you make a copy of the original file before you edit it. If you think you have made the proper changes to that file, at the prompt type startx to try to manually start the GUI. Redhat 9.0 has a GForce 4 MX driver. I just checked. It is normal not to be able to "see" Linux partitions from within Windows. If you post additional Linux questions, I suggest you include the as distribution name as well as the version. There are many distributions and between them there are differences. With RedHat 9.0, RedHat is the distribution name and 9.0 is the version.

Pop over to www.nvidia.com and download the latest drivers, follow the instructions and you should have nice accelerated graphics (my GeForce 4 works a treat!) If you you can't boot into windoze and need help doing this from a command line in linux let me know.....