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Can any linux guru help me out with this problem..?

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wasssup

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I just spent 2.5 hours installing the latest redhat linux via Virtual PC on my system, and during the video device setup I chose my real settings (it selected generic S3 driver, I told it i had an NVidia GF4, etc) and when it restarted all I got was a garbled screen when the login menu finally pops up...

Anyone know how to revert back to my old settings? I'm a complete linux n00b (i use unix at campus for writing/compiling programs, so I do have *some* experience though its limited..)
 
Virtrual PC emulates hardware, it never gets to see your real hardware and it was right when it said it found a S3 card. At this point it would probably just be simpler to reinstall it again to redo the X config.
 
VirtualPC doesn't give you full direct hardware access in the same way a real PC does, so what you probably need to do is boot up to a non-gui runlevel (or even boot it passing init=/bin/sh at the boot prompt) and run the X configuration script again. Depending on how RedHat does it, it could be any of a bunch of script names. I'd look at the online docs for whichever version of RedHat you are using, since those ought to have the appropriate information.
 
i ended up starting a reinstall this morning, i don't really NEED the gui anyway...

thanks for the tips though!
 
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