Got a Pentium 2 3 GB HD, 266 MHz processor, and i've installed Red Hat 7.0 several times and all I got is the command line environment, never get the GUI to run, Everytime the I try startX, it says that failed to load the Xfree86 libraries, packages. What should I do?
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Installed Red Hat 7.0, cannot get the GUI to Run. 2
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I can't offer much help, but I've had this happen to me with RH 6.1 (fixed when I upgraded to 7.0 - which isn't of great help to you)
Anywho, try re-installing (bummer I know) but use FDisk on the RH partitions instead of simply writing over them, as they can still be corrupt if u install a slightly different (or even similar) configuration ontop.
Then make sure you choose a very low level resolution and color bit level (i.e. - 640x400 & 8bit)
The hopefully it should boot up X and once your in, run Xconfigurator as root, and change the res, and bit levels to what you want.
Worked for me, but good luck!
let me know how it goes
JoE
I can't offer much help, but I've had this happen to me with RH 6.1 (fixed when I upgraded to 7.0 - which isn't of great help to you)
Anywho, try re-installing (bummer I know) but use FDisk on the RH partitions instead of simply writing over them, as they can still be corrupt if u install a slightly different (or even similar) configuration ontop.
Then make sure you choose a very low level resolution and color bit level (i.e. - 640x400 & 8bit)
The hopefully it should boot up X and once your in, run Xconfigurator as root, and change the res, and bit levels to what you want.
Worked for me, but good luck!
let me know how it goes
JoE
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Hi,
I'd agree to try Xconfigurator first to make sure there are no errors in your config file. If its still a problem ....
are you sure all the relevant rpms are installed ? If you do 'rpm -qa | grep ^XF' you should get something like :
XFree86-tools-4.0.3-5
XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-38
XFree86-xfs-4.0.3-5
XFree86-4.0.3-5
XFree86-xf86cfg-4.0.3-5
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.3-5
XFree86-libs-4.0.3-5
XFree86-xdm-4.0.3-5
You need most of these & maybe one has become corruputed or wasn't installed. You can verify them like this :
rpm -V XFree86-libs
(etc.)
If you get missing file errors you should reinstall the relevant rpm(s).
Hope this helps
I'd agree to try Xconfigurator first to make sure there are no errors in your config file. If its still a problem ....
are you sure all the relevant rpms are installed ? If you do 'rpm -qa | grep ^XF' you should get something like :
XFree86-tools-4.0.3-5
XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-38
XFree86-xfs-4.0.3-5
XFree86-4.0.3-5
XFree86-xf86cfg-4.0.3-5
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.3-5
XFree86-libs-4.0.3-5
XFree86-xdm-4.0.3-5
You need most of these & maybe one has become corruputed or wasn't installed. You can verify them like this :
rpm -V XFree86-libs
(etc.)
If you get missing file errors you should reinstall the relevant rpm(s).
Hope this helps
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Got a Pentium 2 3 GB HD, 266 MHz processor, and i've installed Red Hat 7.0 several times and all I got is the command line environment, never get the GUI to run, Everytime the I try startX, it says that failed to load the Xfree86 libraries, packages. My questions is thata I command to install the relavant rpm(s) from the cd rom?
Hi,
Actually it may be because of a server-class install. It's one of the 'gotchas' for RH 7.0 that X doesn't get installed at all if you do a server class installation. See the redhat doc for workaround... --> .
Regards
Actually it may be because of a server-class install. It's one of the 'gotchas' for RH 7.0 that X doesn't get installed at all if you do a server class installation. See the redhat doc for workaround... --> .
Regards
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