Re: Blank screen after startx

Hi, Joe:

 Which of these three, if any, configuration scripts did you
use to setup your video driver and monitor:
- xf86config
- xf86cfg
- XFree86 -configure
?
HTH, Chuck


Joe Dupre wrote:
> 
> I did a default setup of RedHat 7.3.  When I start X (startx) all I get is a blank
> screen.  The only way I know how to get out of this situation is to hit the reset
> button!
> 
> I looked at the configuration file, and it appears to have correctly identified the
> video card as a TGUI 96XX  (it is the Trident 9680 adapter).  The monitor type is
> unknown to X (but I know that it is  a Teco TE1422, and that it works on the
> same machine under Windows NT at 800x600, 16 bit color @60 Hz)
> 
> How does one go about troubleshooting the adapter/monitor setup???
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -jmd
> 
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