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We had a nice article from Dwight Silverman on LINUX this week in the local
Chronicle.
He strongly likes Caldera 2.2, far more than RedHat 6, Caldera is a lot
easier on the installation part, RedHat takes some work.  Sounds like you
got that down already though.  I didn't.

I couldn't get ANY thing runnnning in graphics modes, only TEXT.  No XFree,
no Gnome.  Just TEXT mode.

That 16 color mode may be ALL you can do with that card in X and Gnome for
now.

Grandpa

PS- Slackware is FAR worse.

Lars Gundar wrote in message <37ca0af3.334882@news>...
>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...
>