Problem with screen display!

[Rbz-Jake]

Alright,

System
- Abit Guru AW8-Max motherboard
- Pentium 4 3.06ghz
- 1gig Geil DDR2 667 Ram
- ATI Radeon x800 GTO Fireblade edition by Sapphire Inc.
- 100gig Maxtor 7200rpm hard drive
- 500 watt power supply
- dvd-cdrw combo drive

Ok this computer was home build and has been running Windows XP Pro 32 bit for the past 8 months. With the release of Vista Ive really been wanting to abandon Windows and Ive decided to do just that.

Since this computer is capable of running 64 bit it seemed like the best option to go with Fedora 6 x86_64 bit which was downloaded from the Fedora site. The install went fairly easy. The problem however is that the computer boots up and runs through all the first boot up applications that check everything. Everything passes as ok except the ethernet card and then the evaluation program finishes the screen turns black as if its entering the GUI but before anything appears on the screen the screen turns a different black which looks as though there is video but nothing is being displayed but also it shows no cursor and the keyboard will not respond. Ive tried rebooting but unplugging and the reset button but everytime it does the same thing. Kinda at a loss for what do to. Also the comp has done the same type of thing with windows when alt-tabbing out of full screen World of warcraft to the desktop.

Thanks,
Jake

[Seve]

Hello:
Try adding to your kernel boot line in grub
mode=vesa resolution=800x600
your kernel boot line should look like this
.....rhgb quiet mode=vesa resolution=800x600

When grub appears, hit the enter key and then type e [for edit] an use your cursor to move to the correct area
When you are finished, hit the esc key and type b [for boot]

If it works and you able to boot, then open a terminal and type
system-config-display
and check that you hardware is selected properly.

Seve

[Rbz-Jake]

Tried that but still the same result as in that it just will not load graphics after it runs the boot check.

[jruiseco]

On my FC4 installation I get a similar freeze when booting directly into initlevel 5. The fix? I edit the kernel boot options on boot and add "single" at the end to enter single user mode, then do a telinit 5 go to into initlevel 5. For some reason it works. The vesa option above might do the same, not sure. I've read there's a problem with the default scan frequency set to 87hz, but I doubt it since the keyboard feezes to the point where caps lock doesn't even work. I have the same problem with FC5 and FC6 install DVDs when starting anaconda. Good luck!

Joquin