I've just installed Red Hat Fedora Core 1 on my Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop with an ATI Rage 128 Mobility video card. When I boot up, the x server will not start. I get a message telling me that something with my graphical interface is not properly set up. Judging by what I've read, I think I need to configure the x server to use the generic vesa driver, but I don't know how, as I'm a total Linux newbie. Could anyone give me a detailed description of how to go about this? Detailed, as in, I don't know the first thing about Linux commands yet. Thanks.

I was using Suse 9.1 and I know there are others here who will be able to help you much better.

But I reinstalled and at the point the install recognized my hardware there was a stop that it told me what video and monitor it was going to install for the configuration.

By clicking on change at that point is were I could adjust what drivers to have it use.

Not sure if this helps as I'm still learning just as you are.

Good luck.

driver named as 'ati' should work probably with the ati rage mobility graphics cards.