Upgrade from Fedora 7 to 9, no GUI

[stan]

JUSTIN TAYLOR wrote:
> I tried renaming /etc/inittab.rpmnew to /etc/inittab but that did not 
> work.
>
> The last three lines in /var/log/Xorg.0.log are:
> (EE) No devices detected.
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
>

This is from another thread currently on the list. 
Subject Re: F9/KDE4: Can't access screen resolution changes after 
software install
Author  John Munn
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To get your x settings back you can shut down x with "telinit 3", then 
log in as root at the command line (not an xterm).  Next you run "Xorg 
--configure" which will generate a new xorg.conf file in the current 
directory which you must copy to "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"  (see "man 
Xorg").  Finally restart x by "telinit 5".
...
You might try the above advice to see if manually running the X 
configuration will help.  Is there something exotic about your 
hardware?  It is rare for it not to be detected at all.  The more common 
case when there is a problem is to have bad resolution.

 From the command line, if you run    dmesg | less   what does it show 
during video card detection.  If you are getting to the command line in 
a console, it is detecting some kind of video setup.  There would be a 
blank screen if it wasn't.  Are there errors during detection?