Re: S3 Virge, GUI and other problems.

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Guillem Plasencia wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> i recently installed (first time linuxer) Red Hat 6.2 on one 8 Mb HD.
> And got some problems i hope some of you could help into solving :
>
> -i can't start the X Window KDE. It says that 800*600 isn't possible,
> but i have it running so on my Win95, with a 2Mb S3 Virge graphic card.
> (I have Win95 on my other HD)
>
> Other more general problems (please reply off list, as they're off
> topic) with the same installation were :
>
> -i can't login as administrator, whenever i introduce "su" as login, and
>
> the password for the admin, it doesn't recognizes it. When i installed
> it, it only requested a password for the "superuser", so i don't know if
>
> "su" is just the right login for superuser or administrator.
>
> -have to boot using the floppy disk, because i just don't see any dual
> boot message when starting, and have to boot from the disk all times.
>
> Thank you very much !
>
> P.D. I've already  read all posts relating S3 Virge, but no one has
> posted anything similar so far in this list.
>
> --
> Guillem Plasencia
> guillemp@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
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I am not sure where you are trying to login?
If it is when you first boot up then log in as "root"
Then run "setup" (if you have it installed).
In setup you can get a basic GUI set up.
Then run startx
Anyway if your still having problems feel free to email me
evyjohn@xxxxxxxxxx
John





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