[Gllug] newbie seeking help!

[paul]

 the version he installed does detect your card etc but it's best not to
let that happen and install manually
In message <E12FHoJ-0004X0-00@nemesis.clara.net>, Dan Cuthbert
<dan.c@clara.co.uk> writes
>The better installation would be version 6.1 it should autodetect your card and 
>monitor
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>> Hi
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>> I've just installed RHLinux6.0 for the 1st time, off a Linux Answers 
>> CDROM, and it appears to have installed correctly. Now when I tried 
>> to run GNOME, all I get is a number of windows with the text 'blacked 
>> out'. I tried to use the xconf utility, which I found by sheer luck, 
>> and tried the SVGA options, for the SIS620 and the other one that 
>> looked similar to my card, but nothing seems to work, I always get 
>> the same black boxes. My video card is a SiS6205 PCI with 2mb,and my 
>> monitor is an AST 5v, based on a Daewoo CMC1505x, when I read the 
>> docs through Win95 (before the install) it said my card was 
>> supported. The only setting that seems to work is the VGA16 one, and 
>> this is useless, as I can only see a fraction of the lower part of 
>> the screen. The Xfree86 version is 3.3.5, and the kernel is 2.2.5 Can 
>> you help?
>>
>> (This is my college email address, btw)
>>
>> Sparky
>>
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paul