On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 22:37, Stephen Andert wrote: > > > I'm not a total novice, but I may have just gotten lucky on prior linux > installations when setting up Xwindows. > > This time, with RedHat 8, my video card was recognized, but my monitor was > not. But the same machine (video card and monitor) worked fine with some > version of RedHat 7. I didn't think to save anything from the 7 > installation, since this is only a play system that I'm trying to get up so > I can install Oracle and do some additional testing/playing with. > > The install works fine with a great looking GUI, but when I try and startx, > I get (EE) No devices detected followed by no screens found. > ----- redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig can you locate the monitor specs for V & H refresh rates? It would take some of the guess work out Craig