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On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Iliano Cervesato wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed Linux (redhat 5.0) on my IBM > Thinkpad 760E. After some effort, I got X to > run, but I have the following behavior: > > * when I run X, I get a black screen with just > the icons displayed, with sometimes only a > small rectangle that gets refreshed (and where > everything happens as expected). > > * If I start Windows 95, reboot into Linux and > run X, then things work fine. > > Has anybody come across this problem? Any idea > about how to initialize the screen before running > X so that I don't have to go through Windows all > the time? Odd problem. Have you tried to cycle the video mode manually. When the X server starts up, hit 'CTRL'-'ALT' -'+'. You have to use the grey, numberpad '+' and the right 'CTRL' and 'ALT' if memory serves right. Do you have a plug and play video card? Maybe you should try out the isapnptools-1.11.tgz. It is a pnp manager that allows you to do some pretty interesting things with plug and play hardware (like disable it ;-) ). ----Steve Stephen Amadei Director of MIS Dandy Connections, Inc. Atlantic City, NJ