Hi,

I've installed Red Hat 7.3 on the pc that I use at work. Im going to be using this pc for sound editing, web surfing, and a little video and graphic editing. I chose RH 7.3 and not Slack, which is the one I normally use, at least at home, because I don't really have that much time to be manually upgrading the system, because Im not really an expert and at least with RH i can use the RH network upgrade thing or the ximian red carpet stuff and not worry about doing it myself. Other wise I would do it myself.

My system has an AMD athlon xp 1900+ with an ASUS motherboard, 256mb ddrram, stb velocity 128 3d agp video card, creative soundblaster live and auiophile soundcards, some generic realtek nic card, 80gigs hdd, blah blah blah... and I also dual boot winsh*tME and linux.

To make a long story short, I had been running slack 8.1 for a week now on this same pc, the only problem I had (because of inexperiece) was configuring my printer, everything else was nice and stable. Yesterday I decided to use RH 7.3 instead of Slack (probably a mistake). Installation went fine (done it a gazillion times), but when I was in the Gnome and tried to use XMMS my screen went black, an a beep or two came out of my computer, the monitor acted like if it wasn't recieving any signal from the video card, then video came back again but scrambled, went black againg, and after almost a minute it returned to normal. I closed xmms, opened gmix (or gnome mixer, whatever the name is) and the same thing happened againg. Thinking it was the video card configuration I ran xf86config, and configured X the same way I have succesfully done it before many times with slack on this computer. Restarted X, and as I was playing with the gnome panel, boom! It happened againg.
I haven't really check the logs, probably I'll do it later (Im using Winsh*itME now) and will post anything weird later. Like I said before, this only happens with Red Hat, other Linux distros work fine on this computer. If anybody has any idea of what can possibly be causing this problem, I would appreciate the help.

Thanks.

Diff your XF86config-*'s and post em with your logs, if there ain't anything real there, up the verbose/debug level, try again.
W/o logs it'll stay at guessing IMO.