I am trying to install Fedora 5 on an Intel Board with ATI Radeon Xpress 200 chipset.
The installation initiates, checks CDs and then crashes. All what shows up on the screen is Green/white/pink bars.
If I try installing in text-mode, the install is fine, and the system boots up in shell. But if I change the inittab to enable boot in X11 mode again, I get the same weird screen.

I think its a problem with the video card drivers. Any suggestons how to fix that?

also, I would request if anyone knows how can I switch back to shell mode since now I have edited the inittab and the system wont boot in X11 mode abd install drivers from shell (text-mode)?

(I am very new to Linux, so please give a little detailed solution =) )

Thanks

KhAjUr

To boot in text mode, when grub comes up, don't just boot as normal. Instead press 'e' to edit your normal boot option. Simply add the number '3' to the line that begins 'kernel ...'. This only affects the current boot, but once you've got into Linux, you can modify the inittab again.

I'm not familiar with the video card, but you could try switching to the vesa drivers for the time being. Open up /etc/X11/xorg.conf and find the section relating to the graphics card. It should be clearly marked as such. In that section there will be a line that begins 'Driver ...'. Comment this line out (put a '#' at the beginning) and add a new line as follows:
Save the file and try starting x with the command 'startx'. Hopefully it works, in which case you can switch the default runlevel back to 5. If it doesn't work, you can get back to the command line by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Assuming it does work, you can then hunt around to see if you can get the proper driver working.

Good luck!