[WBEL-users] installation woes

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 08:40 -0800, John Lowry wrote:
> Update....
> 
> I managed to get sshd working....but how to configure X from a foreign
> terminal.
> 
> export DISPLAY=<ip>:0
> redhat-config-xfree86   .... results in this, but nothing more:
> 
> * ddcprobe returned bogus values:
> ID:   None
> Name: None
> HorizSync: None
> VertSync:  None
> 
> --John
> 
> 
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, John Lowry wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I've had to reinstall WhiteBox.
> >
> > I can't get X to run.  I recall I had this problem previously, but swapping out
> > the graphics card allowed me to come up with X.  Swapping back allowed me to
> > reconfigure with the one I wanted.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I no longer have the other graphics card.
> >
> > So how do I configure X from text mode?  I'm (somewhat gratutitiously :-) told
> > to run it from an ssh connection, but I need to enable ssh first.  Of course,
> > the tools to do that require X :-( At least the ones I know about.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
----
from terminal...

redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig

but from remote, I wouldn't have a clue. Methinks that it should be
working locally first.

Craig