Troubleshooting X

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 22:37, Stephen Andert wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm not a total novice, but I may have just gotten lucky on prior linux 
> installations when setting up Xwindows.
> 
> This time, with RedHat 8, my video card was recognized, but my monitor was 
> not.  But the same machine (video card and monitor) worked fine with some 
> version of RedHat 7.  I didn't think to save anything from the 7 
> installation, since this is only a play system that I'm trying to get up so 
> I can install Oracle and do some additional testing/playing with.
> 
> The install works fine with a great looking GUI, but when I try and startx, 
> I get (EE) No devices detected followed by no screens found.
> 
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redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig

can you locate the monitor specs for V & H refresh rates? It would take
some of the guess work out

Craig