RH7.2 & Radeon 7500 troubles

you could try switching to, i thing user level 3 and then creating an
.xinitrc file, entering the window manager of choice, mine being
enlightenment. then from the prompt just enter startx. just a thought.

slr

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Cernek" <cernek@cox.net>
To: "Plug-Discuss@Lists. Plug. Phoenix. Az. Us"
<plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 9:42 AM
Subject: RH7.2 & Radeon 7500 troubles


> I'm running RH7.2 and I got a new toy -- a Radeon 7500. Realizing that
just
> plugging in the new board would cause the xserver I was using to choke, I
> set the xserver up as plain-vanilla VGA before the switch. Choked anyway.
> Re-installed RH7.2 (scratch -- reformatted the drive) and it choked while
> trying to set up the X configuration. Did some poking around and found
that
> the 7500 *should* be supported by XFree86 4.2.0. OK. Downloaded 4.2.0,
> reinstalled RH7.2, skipped the X-configuration, ran the Xinstall script
and
> vola! startx produced twm as the window manager. OK. Ran gdm or kdm to try
> to get to the selection of a window manager. Login screen came up
properly,
> but any attempt to change the display manager to kde or gnome was
ignored --
> still comes up in twm. Now, during the Xinstall script I was asked a bunch
> of questions about changing links (or not), the answers to most of these
of
> which I am totally clueless. I suspect the problem lies here. I tried both
> extremes -- change nothing -- change everything -- still no success, or
even
> a hint of success. Any guidance appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Ed.
>
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