unable to boot into graphical linux

[bruincal]

I just recently installed Red Hat Linux 7.2 on my system. The install completed successfully, but then I'm unable to start the graphical linux...

It simply boots into the text login:, so i login as root, and put in my password, and so i get the prompt. I type in startx, and I get the following error:

execve failed for /etc/x11/x (errno2)
giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno2): unable to connect to x server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.


and then I get the prompt again. The install went through good too, so I don't know...


I am using a Gateway 700X,
Pentium 4 2ghz, northwood chip
256mb RDRAM
dvd, cdrw,
usb, firewire card
100 gb western digital hdd uata100
40gb western digital hdd uata 100

can anyone help? i really don't want to do a reinstall of the system ... took me 3 hours just to install it already ...

thanks!

 

[manly]

During installation, was X-Windows properly configured? If not, you have to do so before you can use it.

The configuration file is /etc/X11/XF86Config

But you don't have to manually hand configure it (like Apache). You use a tool to generate it. Consult the Red Hat documentation to learn the what and how.

 

[ogcaldwell]

I have installed Linux Distro's with various hardware configs and this is from my experience. If after a fresh install X didn't want to load, I had to reinstall. I have tried rebuilding the config file, but it never worked quite right. If you have anything Sis in your system, I would probably not even try to reinstall. Evil stuff happens when ya mix Sis chips with Linux. Well, that is my 2 cents.

 

[ttn1]

Run Xconfigurator and make sure everything is setup correctly. You'll need to know a bit about your monitor refresh rates and possibly your graphics chip.