since no-one has replied and you know others have the same issue...continue to watch those posts.
In the meantime....I think you are right to suspect video card setup...I assume you know Fedora dropped the core so its F9.
Pls you post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf or xf86free.conf if it uses that old style.
Pls name your onboard or video card.
We may be able to search for bugs at Fedora once we know your chipset.
2) Leaping ahead....lets try to just get a vesa vga graphics boot up?
assuming you have grub when you boot....do you see a "safe mode" menu?
if so what happens when you boot it?
3) if you have no such option when grub starts press E for edit and navigate to the kernel line
add single to end of line
press escape and b to boot
this boots you to the root login prompt no Xserver environment
login as root
now I do not use your distro but issue the next command to find a manual command to configure xorg
Code:
find / -name xorg*
....should output a number of lines including the current /etc/X11 file
if none next try command
find / -name xf86*
whatever you see what you are looking for is something like
xorg (or xf86free) . config ( . cfg or .cf)
and run that command please to configure a new config file
then run startx
if it works with root powers edit the /etc/inittab....making sure that 5 or whatever is the correct number for mult-user X boot...as some distros may use a number other than 5
also the syntax has to have the full colon which can be deleted by us humans
eg
id:5:initdefault:
