my graphic card is ATI Radeon Xpress 200M.
I can't start xwindow at anacoda on my thinkpad r51e-2xc.
And, if I choose install in text mode, after the installation, xwindows also can't work.

But very strange, that , anacoda has detected my graphic card model successful.

Then I chosed to install FC4 firstly, and upgrade into FC5. The xwindows is ok.

Can any one help me? I can't install FC4 and then upgrade to FC5 every time when I wanna install FC5.

I am having the same problem with the Radeon Xpress 200 card. If Xserver starts I get very large colorized blocks and have to reboot with CTL+ALT+DEL.

As background, I was running FC4 with no problems until I changed a few libraries around while attempting to install a SW package. After a few attempts at manipulating the libraries in FC4, I thought I would upgrade to FC5. After the upgrade, I could not log in at any runlevel other than runlevel 1 and Xserver would not work. (Graphical install would also not work during upgrade from DVD isos.)

I reluctantly did a fresh install of FC5 and can now log in but Xserver is still not working. I have done all of the updating via yum including the nlivda inclusion to try using alternate Radeon drivers.

I guess I could take the route baosheng did by reinstalling FC4 first and upgrading to FC5 but I would rather not for obvious reasons. (I'm not even sure if I would attempt the upgrade after reinstalling FC4.)

Does anyone have any ideas about what else to try?

See below. Sorry, don't know how to delete bad posts.

Upon much research I threw up my hands and was going to give in and attempt to reinstall FC4, then upgrade to FC5. When initiating the FC4 install I noticed that FC4 does not recognize the Radeon Xpress 200 video card in my system and instead uses the generic VESA driver.

I aborted the install, booted back into FC5, changed the xorg.conf file to use the VESA driver (generic) instead of the ati driver and Xwindows was able to launch, just as it had in FC4. This is a testament to knowing as much about your Linux hardware and sw specs as possible. Had I known for sure that FC4 was unaware of the ATI card and used generic drivers I could have saved myself a considerable amount of time.

One conclusion I have come to is that the ATI Radeon Xpress 200 driver doesn't work. I tried several different versions and configurations of it and had no luck. And yes, I heeded the warning about using the nlivda versions and not a tarball. Has anyone else seen this driver work trouble free?

After performing "locate vesa" in bash to confirm the existence of the vesa driver, change the "Device" section of xorg.conf from the ATI settings that were auto configured to ones specifying the vesa driver as below:

I have this same problem trying to do a network
install. I have an Nvidia Geforce fx5500 card. I
tried adding "noprobe" on the boot, and it prompts
me for the network driver, but not the video driver
when it gets to that point.
Any Ideas?

EDIT: Resolved by installing in text mode.

rpm dot livna dot org/livna-switcher.html is a good site to go to for this issue.

I have the ATI Radeon Xpress 200 and can't start the graphical installer for Fedora 5. It lists the correct video card and monitor but then all I see is a jumble of colors and a square for my cursor. I'm doing a text install right now but then what? I'm guessing I will only be able to boot into the console. How can I get the correct driver setup in FC5?

Thanks,

Andy

Andy,

I was never able to get the correct drivers working and received no response from anybody about being able to either, so I have been running the generic Vesa driver with no other problems. See my above post about changing the contents of xorg.conf.

I don't use linux as my main OS so I haven't even booted it in a couple of weeks. Let me know if you have any other questions or any luck getting the real driver working.