Linux 9 Installation Problem

Hi all, finally got around to messing with Linux..I chose RH Linux 9...

Everything seems to have gone well, yet at the end of installation my graphics card seems not to be able to handle the given resolution/refresh rate that was assigned to it during installation.

I found this little hint in a book I have but it confuses me some:

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If installation completes successfully, but your screen is garbled when you reboot, you should try to get Red hat Linux to boot to a text-login prompt. To do this, add the words "linux 3" to the end of the kernal boot line in GRUB or LILO. Linux will start the GUI temporarily disabled

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After writing this just now I think I know how to fix it but since I have 1 monitor (second is coming from newegg shortly) an elaboration on my dilemna is appreciated.

To sum it up: need to boot in text mode to be able to change my settings

Well what I did was go into bios and simply use the integrated gfx chip instead of the tnt2 card...that works fine so it is a driver issue apparently.

Switching monitors between two systems sucks oh well.

Going to go try to get dsl on the linux box now.

I wasn't aware there was a 9... thought they only reached 2.6 just recently... ;)

If you dont want just a work around go change your resolution/refresh rate in your XF86Config file. And as far as "linux 3", all that is doing is entering runlevel 3 which is command prompt only instead of 5 which is GUI.