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Hie all l have an Hp Proliant ML110 G5 and l have installed Unix ScoServer 6 but it is not giving the GUI when i press CTL+ALT+f2, so l can l in the command line configure that so that l can get the GUI for either a standard crt monitor or a flat screen one?

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Brief summary tied to the thread: the HP ProLiant ML110 G5 running SCO OpenServer 6 normally ships with an X.Org server and a SCOadmin-based graphics setup tool, so lack of a GUI is usually a configuration or driver issue rather than a missing subsystem. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 only switches virtual consoles; X may be running on a different VT (historically VT7) or not running at all. ()

Quick checklist (safe, repeatable steps to run from a root shell):

# which Xorg || which X
# ls -l /usr/X11* /usr/X11R7/bin/Xorg
# /usr/X11R7/bin/Xorg -configure      # creates /xorg.conf.new
# cp /etc/xorg.conf /etc/xorg.conf.bak
# cp /xorg.conf.new /etc/xorg.conf
# startx   (or startxorg)
# ps -ef | grep -i '[X]org'

OpenServer 6 provides the Xorg binary and the startx/startxorg workflow; SCOadmin offers the character-based video setup front end used by the distribution. (ftp.sco.com)

If X fails to start, collect the X log and look for (EE) errors or driver messages:

# less /var/log/Xorg.0.log
# grep -i '(^| )\(EE\)\|\(WW\)\' /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(older/newer X builds may instead place logs under the user X directory). If the native driver is missing or crashes, forcing the generic VESA driver is a reliable fallback — create a minimal /etc/X11/xorg.conf with Driver "vesa" in the Device section and sensible Modes in the Screen subsection. (x.org)

Practical cautions and next steps: always back up existing /etc/xorg.conf before replacing it; if EDID/flat-panel timing is a problem, copy exact HorizSync/VertRefresh numbers from the monitor spec into a Monitor section; when hardware drivers are entirely unsupported, using a simple, well-supported PCI/VGA card will usually restore graphical capability faster than fighting an old driver stack. As noted, vesa is the usual fallback path for unsupported cards. (sco.com)

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People are still installing SCO Unix? Is there a particular/specific reason for this? Have you considered other Unix variants, such as BSD (both FreeBSD and OpenBSD are good)? These are much more current than SCO (which as a company pretty much doesn't exist any longer - effectively), yet are true Unix systems.

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...true that there is a particular reason why i installed Sco specifically it is not a mistake.

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The X11 server this system is running is most likely NOT a version of the current xorg server that does support flat-panel displays. However, the more likely issue is that the X11 server just does not support the video hardware you have. It may be possible to configure it to use the vesa driver/interface that most all current hardware will support, but without having access to your system configuration settings in /etc, I can only speculate.

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