Troubleshooting X

[George Toft]

Kevin Brown wrote:
> 
> 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.
> >
> > Any pointers?
> 
> Downgrade to 7.x.  From what I've gotten from RH, Oracle is not certified to run
> under 8.x and both RH and Oracle do not recommend it.
> 
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I found out yesterday that MySQL has some issues with RH 8.0 as well.

The "avoid the .0 release" rule strikes again.

George