Display shutting down on first boot

[Dotan Cohen]

On 04/08/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Problem#3 with installing Fedora 7:
>
> After the first boot setup screen, in which one defines a user, I got
> a message similar to this:
> The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90
> seconds. It is likely that something bad is going on. Waiting for 2
> minutes before trying again on display :0.
>
> After clicking OK, I got the message again after a few minutes of a
> blank screen.
>
> This is on a Dell Inspiron laptop, Duo Core Intel, 2GB RAM, ATI X1400 video.
>

I do have a working xorg.conf from FC6 backed up on disk. How can I
get to a prompt so that I can copy it to this F7 install?

Dotan Cohen

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