Starting Beryl crashs X

[Chris Mohler]

> The machine is supposed to have a ATI x1400 viedo card, but I'm
> not certain that that's what I got (how can I check that).

as root:
# lspci
or:
# lspci | grep -i ati


 > Should I change "vesa" to "radeon"? What else can I do? Thanks in advance.

Yes - if X fails, check you have the xorg ati driver installed:
$ yum list *x*ati*
xorg-x11-drv-ati.i386                    6.6.3-1.fc6            installed

Chris
Chris