Re: help installing rh 5.2, Please, prob with mon and vid specs.

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From: Jay
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 00:00

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zeetboy wrote:

> wont let me get past the  the select monitor and vid card part of
> setup , I have a micro Q 1450 mon and an oak tech. card that I can
> find no info on either. I try and fake it with lowest specs. but my
> screen goes blanc and I never get past the first reboot. end up back
> at a command prompt but I am pretty clueless where to go from here.
> Any help greatly appreciated
> greg

Well what you are doing there is trying to configure and run Xwindows,
linux be nature is a command line OS. Use the how-to's to learn how to
setup x or just use linux in it's natural state.

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