hi, i'm new on linux, i succefully installed red hat on my pentium 120, but i have problems, when it start up it start in graphical mode. but i can`t see nothing. I it like not recognize the video card. I´m using trident 9680. Is there any problem whit this video card?

I have a Trident 9680 (2 Meg) and have had much success with using it in Linux (running Mandrake 6.1 right now with it), but have not tried it with Redhat 8 (my RH8 box has an on-board Trident Cyberblade). When you installed it and went through the X-Windows setup, did you say "yes" to go into the gui upon boot? Say "no" to this prompt during the installation, and then you'll get a text login. Then, you can run "xf86config". Once you find a mode that works (I prefer 800x600, 16-bit), enter "startx" to load the gui. To then have the gui load upon boot, modify the "id:3:initdefault:" line in /etc/inittab and replace the 3 with a 5. Good luck.

Thanks c_legend, i tried it, dident work :( have someone this: operative system: red hat 8.0 cpu: pentium 120 Mhz ram: 64 Mbytes video card: trident 9680 1 Megabyte monitor horizontal scan: 30 - 50 Mhz vertical scan: 50 - 90 Hz graphical mode doesn´t work ok. I tried all combination in xf86config. Had someone the same problem? What can i do? ¿could someone send xf86config file? thanks!!! mandix

You've tried all combinations? Maybe there's something incompatible with your monitor, then, as 640x480, 256 colors, will work on basically any VGA card (256k and up) and monitor. Maybe you don't have the right video driver installed. Have you tried using "redhat-config-xfree86" instead of xf86config? Good luck.

thanks c_legend i found solution.... appearntly this driver doesn´t exist for this video card. so i´used vesa generic.... by... pd: sorry my english