Some very basic How-to needed

Hello all,

After years of goofing around with leftover PCs and Frankenstien
combinations of older hardware, I decided to give RedHat Linux 8.0 a new
PC of its
own. I purchased a brand new 1.8ghz Pentium 4 PC from Dell (whitebox
equivalent of Optiplex GX260). The system has an Intel D845GBV
motherboard
with 512MB RAM, 40GB IDE hard drive, integrated audio, video & nic.

I installed RedHat 8 and the video won't work properly. I can't seem to
figure out where to get the drivers (Redhat?,Nope. Intel?, Nope. Dell?,
Forget it...) or even how to adjust the video so that it displays
properly.
I'd hate to run it down at basic 640x480 VGA, but I can't get the GUI to
work well enough to change to that either. The 845 chipset was correctly
ID'd by the GUI installer, so I don't know what the problem is.

It's always been too much work to get Linux running, but I've always
felt
that I've not given it a fair shake. Now I've got a system that would
run
any version of Windows superbly. I've made the effort and the
investment,
and I'm getting pissed off. Please help me if you can.

Mark Muto

 

Mark R. Muto

PACE Systems, Inc.

(978) 352-8949