[wplug] Dual boot question

[Doug Dominick]

OK. The OS is installed and it will not go into X.  Is there a way for
me to load the correct driver from ATI from the command prompt?

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
Vanco, Donald
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:19 PM
To: 'wplug at wplug.org'
Subject: RE: [wplug] Dual boot question


Doug Dominick wrote:
> Don,
> 
> 	Thanks for answering my questions again.  It has an ATI Fire GL2

> graphics card.  There is a driver on ATI's site.  How do I not set it 
> to boot to the GUI by default?  Once it boots how do I get it to go 
> into the GUI?
The installer will try to configure X as part of the install (even in
text mode).  It may work, it may not - the only time you'll see an
install time prompt to select GUI -vs- Text login is at this point.  If
it fails during install, boot the system (in non-GUI mode of course) and
run redhat-config-xfree

There are options - but it should probe for you.  If that fails, try to
use it to set the config for a generic laptop display at 800x600 and an
SVGA video server - that's about as bland a config as you can get.  Once
that's working, copy off /etc/X11/XF86Config and try to up the
resolution or set it for an ATI driver - you'll always have the copy
XF86Config to fall back on.

To start the GUI it's "startx"
To start a login manager (a GUI tool) it's "init 5"

man init
man startx
see RH docs (!!!!)

Don
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