I installed fc4 on a machine with a ati x700 videocard. but after the setup, it can't identify videocard and assumed headless. now I can only use the text mode. but this is my first linux distro and i am totally clueless. how do i enable graphic mode?

There is software and help you can get from ATI on this website.

thanks for the reply. the website featured two ati drivers, the big 69 mb installer and the 13mb x-window version. but it seems that both of them need a graphic enviroment to install and I don't have that b/c fc4 didn't recognize my pci-e card(neither did ubuntu). so is there a way to config the display/videocard without the driver? or should I burn a cd with the drivers on and try to use the command "./ati-driver-installer-8.20.8.run" the website gave? but then how do I access the CD-drive in the text mode?
as you can see, I am still clueless at the moment.

by the way, this is the machine:
Pentium D 820
2g 667 ram
Asus p5ld2
120g seagate harddisk
ati x700-pro 256mb
on board soundcard/net
modem (I am using dial-up)
acer 19" lcd

thanks

hmm, am I the only one who has this problem or is this a common thing that has been posted again and again? I've searched the forum but there is no specific info on this. I think a while ago I've read something that mentioned the incompatibility between the x serie card and linux. but I didn't pay enough attention back then.

I've had similar problems with an x850 XT using both Fedora 4, Mandriva and Ubuntu. I've had no graphics problems at all using SuSe distro. I'm not sure if the issue was with my monitor though as I use a DELL FP2405FPW and I'm new to Linux. Not sure if this is of any help to you but hopefully it is.