Red Hat 7.2

[LocoCoyote]

I have been playing with Red Hat 7.2 again. It seems as if I just can't leave it alone. Lord knows why! It continues to frustrate me every time.
To begin with some background...
I did the install from CD ROM on a HP Omnibook XE3. 6xx MHz Celeron , 192 MB of RAM (actually 256 but that is another story!), Savage IX video, External monitor, USB HP CD RW, USB wireless Optical mouse, Logitech wireless Keyboard. 7 port USB hub. Well to say the least, I was not optimistic. everytime I have played with Linux it has ended in disaster.
Well, I had just finished installing WinXP Pro and had it up and running. I have this cool 60GB HD and had room to play with. So I fired up Partion Magic 7 and made up a swap partion and a ext2 partion.
To my great surprise, the install went smoothly. No problems at all. Total time was maybe 35 minutes. Even my network connection worked! Never had I seen Linux work like this. OK, so I decided that maybe it was just luck. So I format and do a couple of installs, playing with different options. Everything went smoothly. So I start getting this "maybe Linux isn't so bad after all" feeling and decide that I will do some objective comparisons between the two operation systems on the same hardware and that I would make an objective and unbiased attempt to do everything that I can do in windows with Linux.
Every thing went fine..up until I switched my desktop from Gnome to KDE. I enabled the screensaver then went to breakfest. I came back and guess what? The computer was locked up tighter than a miser's wallet! Nothing I could do would unlock the machine. So I did a manual reboot. Linux comes up with a cmd line log-in (I choose graphical before). I could startx and get gnome to run, but not kde. every reboot after was the same problem. So I did a reinstall. This is where I am now. I still intend to go forth with my project and I will make every effort to bore you with the details! Oh, by the way I am writing this in Kword and will paste it on the website using one of these strange Linux browsers!

[LocoCoyote]

An update....touchpad won't work. Scanner is dead also. Neither was unexpected.
Tried using my notebook in mobile mode (ie disconnected all external stuff) It will only boot to a cmd prompt. However, if I hook up another USB external mouse it seems to run fine. Going to take it home tonight an see if I can get DUN to work.

[Floppyman]

Hi,

Are you sure your video settings are configured correctly? HTH

[LocoCoyote]

Truth to tell, with this Linux stuff I'm not sure of anything! ;-)
That is part of the fun though. I did some more playing..ahemm..work this weekend. Seems the modem doesn't work, so no dial-up. Working that issue right now.
More later...