linux configuring gui mode!!!

[maryam421]

Hi,
I installed linux 9 on intel pentium 4. Every thing looks good. When I get the login screen I see redhat linux logo at the background. But when I login I get only one session open. I not getting the gui mode after login in. I checked the chkconfig to see which init mode I am running in. It showing me init5 which is the gui mode. When I run startx command, I get the following message:

[root@linux1 root]# startx
hostname: Unknown host
Using authority file /root/.Xauthority
Writing authority file /root/.Xauthority

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
and start again.


When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org.


Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
giving up.
xinit: unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

I am very new to this subject. Please help.
Thanks

 

[marsd]

Try ctrl-alt F7 at console. That's the default tty.
You are not trying X via a remote connection are you,
telnet, rsh, ssh?
X doesn't work this way. You would use something like VNC
for this.

More details please.

 

[nokernel]

Just to let you know ant to put dots on i's. There is no linux 9. It's red-hat 9 .