fedora 7 install problem

[Timothy Murphy]

Simon Tierney wrote:

> I have installed onto an opteron system with an old matrox millenium card
> but when first time boot started it requested me to click on an area of
> the screen (bottom right) which was not displayed, and when I mooved the
> mouse toward it, the system froze.
> 
> So I swapped in a 3Dlabs Oxygen card in case the Matrox was underpowered,
> but now it cannot start X and hangs with a little orange icon at the top
> left corner of a blank screen!
> 
> I tried to re-install but had the same problem again, the DVD ISO passed
> the test.
> 
> The motherboard (Tyan Thunder) has PCI-Express slots, can anyone suggest a
> solution or recommend a PCI-Express video card or chipset compatible to
> Fedora &?

Did you try running in text mode? (Answer "linux text" at the boot prompt.)

If I had your problem I'd run in text mode and try to sort out
the xorg settings from there.

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