problem with XFree and video card detecting installing RH WS Enterprise Ed. 3: what steps to follow for a working installation

[Enrico Toniolo]

Hello to All,

first of all I advise I'm all but expert of linux o.s., and I apologise if
my question may be trivial for someone, now my problem:

I had an IBM Intellistation A-Pro (AMD64bit Opteron) with "Linux Red Hat
WS Enterprise Edition version 3" preinstalled. I have had to reinstall all
the O.S. with a different scheme of partitions but, it didn't install
properly as I am going to describe in the following:

1. The CD 1, of 10 of the "Linux Red Hat WS Enterprise Edition" included
with the Workstation, was given to the Workstation when it started up.
2. I chose the graphical mode but the installer did not detect any video
card (what mounted in the machine is Nvidia Quadro FX 1100), so the textual
mode started.
3. Then I chose to install everything, and the installation finished well,
but
4. Linux startup in textual mode and doesn't exist any /etc/X11/XF86Config
configuration file or any xf86config, XF86Setup or Xconfigurator or xf86cfg
executable to configure it.

What I think is that after the Linux-installer didn't detect/recognize any
video card it doesn't install XFree properly or completely, because even
installing the video card driver from:

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/intellistation/nvidia-linux-x86_64-1.0-6629-pkg2.run


it wasn't possible to configure any XFree for the same reason of the point
4 above. Probably after installing the video card driver, XFree must be
reinstalled, but I don't know how, and I'm not completely sure of that.

When the IBM Opteron arrived, the Linux there preinstalled worked properly.
So it means there is a way to install it properly from the 10 Installation
CDs included and the Nvidia driver not included. This way is not described
in the Installation Guide Book there included.

So I ask what steps to follow for a correct and complete (with XFree and
KDE) installation of Linux 3 WS Ent. Edition.

hoping for instructions,

thanks in advance for the help and

kind regards,

Enrico Toniolo