Hi everyone, I've been running linux for several years and just made the jump from redhat 7.2 to 9. I installed 9 as an upgrade and everything came off smooth, except when I login and try to start X. I run "startx" and the monitor turns off and nothing I do will get it back. I end up hitting "Ctrl-Alt-Backspace" to try to leave X to no avail and then "Ctrl-Alt-Del" to restart and that's how I get back out of it. I'm using a Gemstar 19" that's a few years old. When I startx I'm not getting any errors messages as the monitor turns off and I can't see anything, and I even tried "startx > filename" to see if I can catch any errors and the file shows up blank. I've gone through XF86Config, xinitrc, Xclients and Xclients-default and as far as I can tell it's like I had it before, but what I'm not sure about is the monitor section in XF86Config. I've been through fixing that up once before, but I'm really treading in new ground there. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks.

...oh, sorry I also should mention I've tried redhat-config-xfree86 and gotten the same thing as when I run startx, the monitor shuts off, and that's the end of the game. Thanks again.

Check to see if there is a /etc/X11/ XF86Config-4 file. If you are using X v4+ (as opposed to v3) it will refer to this file first and only use XF86Config if not found.

/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 is there, should I rename/remove it or edit it for the monitor settings?

The layout of the X config file has changes slightly from v3 to v4, although I'm pretty sure it is backwards compatible. If you have (or should I say HAD?!=o) a working XF86Config file I would first try renaming XF86Config-4 so that X doesn't use that one and falls back to the XF86Config. If that doesn't work, rename XF86Config-4 back and then edit that one.

Ok, that did something. Now I get a "no screens found" error. I'm running an ATI Rage card, am I going to have to set that up by hand? Here's the contents of my /var/log/XFree86.0.log file: XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.3.0-2) Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.20-3bigmem i686 [ELF] Build Date: 27 February 2003 Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.20-8 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 17:18:24 EST 2003 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Fri Oct 10 08:22:47 2003 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config" Parse warning on line 102 of section Keyboard in file /etc/X11/XF86Config Ignoring obsolete keyword "LeftAlt". Parse error on line 102 of section Keyboard in file /etc/X11/XF86Config "Meta" is not a valid keyword in this section. (EE) Problem parsing the config file (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org. Thanks

have a check through and make sure that you have a "screen" section which should look something like this: Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubsection EndSection and also a "server layout": Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Simple Layout" Screen "Screen 1" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Make sure that the screen bit refers to the the identifier in the previous section. You may want to post up your XF86Config too. You could always try running the redhat X config program.....I think it's called something like redhat-config-xsetup - it will probably create an XF86Config-4 file.