I am trying to install a less robust 1998 version of Red Hat Linux on
a 233 Mhz Pentium.
Installs ok. Get on. Set up monitor I assume properly although have
swapped monitors.
the command line Red Hat Linux is fine but when I go to startX and it
sets up I get a hashed screen.
I assume that it is a setting somewhere that is wrong.
what do I change to set things right ?

Frank Dowling wrote:
> I am trying to install a less robust 1998 version of Red Hat Linux on
> a 233 Mhz Pentium.
> Installs ok. Get on. Set up monitor I assume properly although have
> swapped monitors.
> the command line Red Hat Linux is fine but when I go to startX and it
> sets up I get a hashed screen.
> I assume that it is a setting somewhere that is wrong.
> what do I change to set things right ?

Unless the monitors are the same make and model you will need to
reconfigure X for the new monitor.

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Frank Dowling wrote:

> what do I change to set things right ?

.... you can use the text-mode configuration utility for xfree
called, 'xf86config', which i use exclusively to configure
my xfree system(s). simply write down your mouse, keyboard,
video card model, and monitor specifications (including the
horizontal and vertical frequency ranges) and then run this
utility. i find that it always gets xfree working
..
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"Frank Dowling" <frankdowling1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I assume that it is a setting somewhere that is wrong.
> what do I change to set things right ?

In redhat you have Xconfigurator which is a nice tool for this job, if not
installed on your system see the other suggestions.

-Jonas

"Frank Dowling" <frankdowling1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I am trying to install a less robust 1998 version of Red Hat Linux on
> a 233 Mhz Pentium.
> Installs ok. Get on. Set up monitor I assume properly although have
> swapped monitors.
> the command line Red Hat Linux is fine but when I go to startX and it
> sets up I get a hashed screen.
> I assume that it is a setting somewhere that is wrong.
> what do I change to set things right ?

Sounds like you need to reconfigure your X-windows. What release of RedHat
Linux is this? 5.something? There's no reason not to use RedHat 7.3, maybe
even RedHat 9, unless you simply don't have the RAM and disk to support
them. They have vastly more up-to-date versions of the XFree86 configuration
tools, and are much easier to keep up-to-date with security patches.