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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, 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 2.66GHz
2.67GHz, 448MB of RAM
Computer: ACPI Uniprocessor PC
Disk Drive: Samsung SP0822N
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 793S/793V/CM173G

Any help will be appreciated,
Tarun

TB wrote:
> 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, 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 2.66GHz
> 2.67GHz, 448MB of RAM
> Computer: ACPI Uniprocessor PC
> Disk Drive: Samsung SP0822N
> 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 793S/793V/CM173G
>
> Any help will be appreciated,
> Tarun
>
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