I just got a new pc and i am running windows xp pro and i have an extra hard drive which i am trying to install linux redhat 7.2 on. It installs ok but it wont detect my video card and startx always fails. I have tried running xf86config to make a new config file for the xwindow but it still doesn''t work. The hard drive that i am trying to install it on is a 40 gig drive which i took out of my old pc that was running XP pro with the NTFS file system. I think i read somewhere that if you format your drive with NTFS you can''t go back to anything else and you wont be able to install linux on it. But i installed it and it''s running ok in text mode but the the xwindow will not work. My pc is a 1800 AMD XP, 512 DDR RAM, 64 MB Radeon video card. I don''t know why it is not working. Can anybody give me any suggestions? Is it because the drive was previously fromatted with NTFS? Keep It Real!

did you try to fdisk the old drive and then reformat it in some other file format?

that sounds like a lie that you can't get out of NTFS. just delete the primary partition, create it again and format it with whatever.

-me

[edited by - Palidine on April 25, 2002 7:44:03 PM]

I did operating system programming and the NTFS thing is a lie. Try doing a low-level format of the HD, and then installing linux.

I doubt that a video card detection problem has anything to do with the hard drive ...

What error messages do you get when you try to start X? You may need to download and install new drivers for your video card.

I deleted the primary partition and formatted the whole drive with ext3 but it judt wont start xwindows. It might be my videocard needs a new driver. But when i go and choose from a list of drivers when i set up redhat it has my video card as one of the choices. The new drivers are a part of xfree86. I don''t know whats wrong.

Any more suggestions?

Keep It Real!

quote: Original post by n3urai
But when i go and choose from a list of drivers when i set up redhat it has my video card as one of the choices. The new drivers are a part of xfree86.

What version of X do you have? Your distro. may have come with an older version, and you card is pretty new. I often have to do some manual tweaking of the config file, but that''s because I choose the harder distro''s, Red Hat should set everything up on its own fine in theory. Doesn''t Red Hat have some special setup tool also? I can''t remember.

Yeah it does, you can choose if you want to do a text setup or graphical. I always choose graphical. I don''t know what to do.

Keep It Real!

quote: Original post by n3urai
I just got a new pc and i am running windows xp pro and i have an extra hard drive which i am trying to install linux redhat 7.2 on. It installs ok but it wont detect my video card and startx always fails. I have tried running xf86config to make a new config file for the xwindow but it still doesn't work. The hard drive that i am trying to install it on is a 40 gig drive which i took out of my old pc that was running XP pro with the NTFS file system. I think i read somewhere that if you format your drive with NTFS you can't go back to anything else and you wont be able to install linux on it. But i installed it and it's running ok in text mode but the the xwindow will not work. My pc is a 1800 AMD XP, 512 DDR RAM, 64 MB Radeon video card. I don't know why it is not working. Can anybody give me any suggestions? Is it because the drive was previously fromatted with NTFS?



Keep It Real!

Download the latest version of X. The version that comes with RH 7.2 isn't up to date. Although, you can get the same performance with a XFree 4.2.0 and the drivers for your video card. Which is what I did for my TNT2 and it did miracles for 3D games in Linux.




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[edited by - cyberdrek on April 26, 2002 7:16:26 AM]

quote: Original post by n3urai
Yeah it does, you can choose if you want to do a text setup or graphical. I always choose graphical. I don''t know what to do.

Keep It Real!

That won''t do anything for ya, the graphical version simply means that it will run a 640x480 version of the install program. These configs aren''t optimized for your video card, just standards. Like MS Windows safe mode...

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quote: Original post by Puzzler183
I did operating system programming and the NTFS thing is a lie. Try doing a low-level format of the HD, and then installing linux.

Untrue, if you simply remove the partition and create a new one using FDISK, it will work just fine. I''m a net admin and I have to sometimes switch PCs that used NT Workstation to 98 and I''ve never had a problem. Although, if you don''t feel comfortable with FDISK, get PART. Since I found out about it, I''ve never gone back to FDISK.



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