Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2

[mylar]

I had the same problem. A while ago I tried to install redhat 7.1 on a
new Dell machine with an onboard Intel graphics card. The installation
went smooth but I couldn't run X because the drivers were not available
in the 7.1 distro. I managed to download the drivers but I  still had to
upgrade the kernel and XFree86. Then i still couldn't get the drivers to
compile until I analyzed the error messages and fixed the driver source
code (a problem with function arguments), and made a patch. 
Fortunatelly I have enough experience to allow me to do this. Finally I
got them to compile and I got the video to work. But ultimately it was
all for naught, a week later I installed Fedora which already had all 
the drivers needed to run the newer machine.

In any event, these are some  of the problems you run into when
installing a older distro on a new machine. 

mylar


On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 15:17, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Pedro Morales wrote:
> > Dear Linux experts,
> > 
> > I'm a student of the Keiser College in Orlando, FL. We
> > are in the Network Administration Program and we are
> > starting to learn to use Linux, we all have great
> > interest in beocming Linux experts but we encounter a
> > small problem, we can't run the GUI version.
> > 
> > Everytime we try to run it, we get an error and can't
> > start it, it says that can't find the monitor, during
> > installation the monitor was auto detected, but the
> > video card wasn't, we have all the specs of the
> > computer but the video card was not listed in the
> > installation list.
> 
> Red Hat Linux 7.2 has been dead for a long time.  All "free" versions
> of Red Hat Linux are dead--the last one being Red Hat Linux 9, which
> Red Hat end-of-lifed April 30 (just three days ago).
> 
> You can download RH9 from their servers or a mirror and install it.
> Keep in mind that since it's been EOL'd, it won't be updated by Red Hat
> any longer.  The Fedora Legacy project will continue to update it, but
> you will have to get your updates from them (up2date will NOT work).
> 
> > Since it's a college, they buy the computers by lot
> > from brand manufacturers, in our case, it's IBM's. The
> > book we're using is Thompson Course Technology Linux+
> > Guide to Linux Certification, and using the free Red
> > Hat Linux 7.2 that comes with it. I suspect that the
> > video card wasnt found because it's an old version of
> > Red Hat on a new computer.
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> > I'm wondering if there's a way to add that video card
> > from the linux test mode after installing? A friend
> > and I reinstalled linux many times with full options
> > testing the different video cards made by Intel (since
> > it's a built in Video), spending hours in that but no
> > solution.
> 
> It's not trivial.  You'd need to build the new driver for the old
> system.  Unless you have some experience, you'll find it difficult.
> 
> > If needed, our computers are:
> > IBM ThinkCentre 8189-A4U
> > Pentium 4 HT
> > 512ram
> > 
> > and well, I'm sure you guys can get teh detailed specs
> > from IBM.
> > 
> > We'd appreciate any possible solutions.
> 
> Why don't you download Fedora Core 1 from one of the mirror sites or
> from the main RedHat site?  Fedora Core 1 was going to be Red Hat Linux
> 10, but Red Hat decided to go the "enterprise" route.
> 
> The primary Fedora website is http://fedora.redhat.com.
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