Hello, I've just installed Fedora 5 and after installation, when rebooting, (nothing wrong happened while installing in graphical mode) I see the screen with the progress bar and after all services are loaded (succesufull) nothing else happens. The computer seems to freeze because it doses not respond at numlock keystroke. No command line, nothing. I dont't know if this is related with the video card or smth. else. Video card: Ati Radeon 9250 256 MB RAM Motherboard: Asus K8V-X SE Processor: AMD Sempron 2800+ 1600 Mhz I apreciate any help. Thanks.

Try Ctrl Alt F1 and see if that gets you a terminal prompt. If it gets you to a terminal prompt than most likely it is a video problem. Try downloading and installing the latest video driver and/or going to the /etc/X11 directory and manually editing the XF86Config or xorg.conf (I do not remember which one it is for fedora.) You may have to change the name of the video driver to that of a new video driver and/or edit the refresh rates/resolutions of your monitor.

I had this same problem on mine. The problem is, none of the keyboard commands (such as Ctrl-Alt-F1 et al) work at this point, and the keyboard and mouse are apparently dead (you should be able to hit the power button and wait for 30 seconds or less for your system to power off safely without holding the power button in to force it to turn off). The problem is in the DRI (Direct Rendering Interface) component of X. My computer would only boot into X about 40% of the time. At this time, all I know is the following workaround: 1. At GRUB interface, press 'a' and add a space and the number one (1) to the end of the line (tells it to boot into runlevel 1, single-user). If you installed a password for GRUB, first press 'p' and enter the password, then the above. 2. At the single-user prompt (sh-3.1#), enter a "nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf" (i think this actually pulls up the joe editor or something else, but it is easy to use). 3. Look for the 'Section "Modules"' line which is near the top of the file. Find the line that says: Load "dri" and change it to this #Load "dri" (this tells it to ignore that line) and save the file and exit the editor (Ctrl+K then press X) 4. Now press Ctrl+D or enter "exit" to boot into X. 5. X windows and your GUI should work, but at sub-optimal speed. Sorry, I don't know how to fix this yet, but it was a real show-stopper for me. Hope this helps.

Oops. I was wrong. In single-user mode, nano should really bring up Nano. In that case, don't do the Ctrl-K (in Nano, that is the cut-text-line function) just do Ctrl-X and answer the prompt.

OK. I finally found my solution. There is finally a proprietary video driver from ATI that will work for X.org 7.0 and my Radeon 9250 (rv280) pci (not express) card. http://rpm.livna.org/ Look at their FAQ first. Then look at the Configuration page to learn how to install the Livna yum repository (and understand this is not officially supported by RedHat).