🚀 go-pugleaf

Okay, I've been banging my head on this one for several days now.
I've read ever post and faq on the subject, so I just might be
extraordinarily stupid.  Please bear with me...

I'm trying to get RedHat 6 (storebought version) to play friendly with
my Creative labs TNT2Ultra -- without much success.

Here's what I'm doing:

- Basic, no-frills Redhat install to hard disk.
- Initially install XFree86 as "generic vga".
- Boot up into RH6.  Everything works.  Gnome works in lovely VGA16
mode.
- Toss RIVA-X-GLX-1.0-glibc-i386-dyn.tar.gz into the root dir.
- Run tar xzf blahblahblah
- Go to the created dir, type ".\riva_install"
- Run "xconfig"
- Enter mouse stuff
- Press ENTER when prompted to enter video card #
- Choose SVGA server (choice #3)
- Enter horiz and vert monitor stuff (7 then 2, if it matters)
- WTF to do about clockchip?  I press enter instead of choosing
anything.
- Skip probe.
- Hit "5" to accept video modes.
- startx.  Looks like 640x480x 16 color (yuk), with a larger virtual
desktop.

What am I doing wrong?  I've tried this (and other things) like 6
times now.

Can somebody please give me retarded-5-year-old-type instructions on
how do to this?  Every keypress, every prompt, everything.  I cannot
be trusted to understand anything, no matter how simple.

You'd think that after 15 years of hardcore computer use, I'd be able
to figure this kind of thing out - but apparently hardware
configuration under linux requires a degree of IQ and patience that
most mortals are incapable of.  This experience has truly humbled me.
I think I'll go sign up for AOL now...