Hi,

I just finished installing a Fedora Core 5 distribution on my computer.
The problem is that I was unable to install it in graphical mode,as it detects my display drivers and try start x server , the screen goes blank and some dots and lines appears with a small square box which indicates mouse pointer so I
had to go for the text mode installation. Now I am able to boot into
Linux but the X server does not run automatically; and when I try to
run it manually by issuing 'X' on bash, the operating system fails to
start it (it only ends up showing a screen that is covered with thin
and vertically aligned white, green and yellow stripes, with an inch by
inch square box instead of the mouse pointer).

Has anyone else run into a similar situation and found a problem? My
goal is that X run automatically when the system boots and that I be
able to use the GUI features that are part of KDE or GNOME to make life
easier, since I am using Linux for the first time.

Here's my hardware configuration (as recorded using Windows installed
on a separate hard disk):

Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz(supports 64bit)
2.80GHz, 448MB of RAM
Disk Drive: seagate sata 80gb
Display Adapter: ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series
DVD/CD-ROM Drives: TSSTcorp CD-R/RW SH-R522C

As discovered by Anaconda during Fedora installation:
Video Card: ATI Technologies Inc. RC410 [RADEON XPRESS 200]
Monitor type: Samsung Syncmaster 591s

Any help will be appreciated,
Deepak jain

i think p4 isn't 64bit - it just supports 64bit memory addressing to have more than 4gb if mem

edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 or equivalent file using a nano, mcedit or vim (how do you use this one? never found out, and never went far enough in the manual)
try ati video driver, 1024x768 resolution, 24bit default depth
try lower resolutions, then test vesa driver, then vga driver...

thanks for ur views

my p4 is 2.80 EM64t

i will try with your views.

thanks for views.

it works.
i m thankful to you.