I want to leave windows but I am not able to do it i am new bie to it and Linux is really taking everything out of me I shall be very thankful for anyone who could help me My problem is with redhat 9.0, i have installed it on my IBM PC which is having intel 845 board and inbuilt i82845G graphics controller. After successful installtion when i reboot the mouse get freezed and then i can't do anything and the Xserver is running at 400 something with i810 driver when i try to change it whole of the graphic is gone and then i can't do anything then as there is no text configuration support so when there is a failure of graphic then i can't configure the X server I did evrything i could, that too what the linux masters have written one the websites. i changed my card to vesa generic but of no use i checked my kernal it is there Ver 2.4.20-8 i checked my GCC it is there3.2.2 but when i try to install dripkg-1.0-4.i386.rpm or 20030425-i386.tar or i830-20030120-i386-linux[1].tar.gz it is giving error message Error1: AGPGART not compiled Error2: DRM not compiled and giving note that DRM may be old so restricting functionality i even modified /etc/X11/XFree86 file to vesa but all this in vain i treid to increase the video memory to 64 Mb but it remained to default 16 and also mouse get freezed so i am not able to do anything but to switch to command mode and from there i can't confogure anything bçoz of lack of text configuration support almost i did the reinstallation a about ten times but everything failed after installtion Xserver runs once and then crashes and next time when i boot it gives some message like this false values F@A0101 Name:None Horizontal Syn =none Vertical Syn - none and it tries again on its own but crashes i don't know what these people have made even i can't work on it properly and masters are saying llinux is good i am not finding good enough i feel like crying wehn i have to switch to windows i don't know where the problem is can somebody try to insall redhat 9.0 on intel 845 for my sake and tell me where the bloody problem is? I am trying it for onemonth now and i am not ablt to solve anything plz help me tell if i had to switch redhat 8.0 or what plz help me i don't want to go to windows anymore and linux is killing me ! as this i have to write from windows as i can't surf net on linux Plz help anyone i shall be very grateful for any kind of help

Umm, I think that when you install Red Hat, do not choose to install X server I think its called. Then when you boot for the first time log in and root and chose "redhat-config-xfree86" and it will set it up for you then just choose "init5" and log on. Hope this helps. It sounds to me that you had a similar problem I had when running Red Hat 9.0, and this was my solution. Let me know if it works.

I have an intel 845 and everything worked fine. Here is my XF86config file so you can see: # XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "dri" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. # Option "XkbDisable" # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # or: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" # # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" # Or if you just want both to be control, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" # Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then # this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you # also use USB mice at the same time. Identifier "DevInputMice" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "ViewSonic E771-2" DisplaySize 320 240 HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "i810" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "Intel 845" VideoRam 16384 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" # Modes "1152x864" "640x480" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection Just so you know, even thought it detected fine my total memory, I needed to specify it manually as it wasn't detected. Question: Why are you trying to install DRI and DRM? they are probably already installed in your system. Did you have a graphical interface during installation? Try (if you can afford it) to reinstall RedHat again. Also check other hardware (like the monitor) to see if it's compatible. RedHat has a published list of compatible hardware somewhere in their site.

I think your problem is your computer, i.e it's IBM. propriatry machines can be very awkward, even for some Microsoft products. Just a suggestion try Mandrake it seems to me to be more forgiving than RH9.( I use RH9 and had a faultless install). Good luck!!

whats your screen resolution and color set to? sometimes when using redhat, x will freeze if your resolution is too high, or if your display is set to "millions of colors" instead of "thousands". this may not be your problem, but hey its worth a try :)

Hi Hemant I have a very similar problem and I am going crazy finding a solution. So if u find one please help me too. Thanks Priya