Problem installing FC5 on Asus P5RD1-VM based system

[John Finlay]

John Finlay wrote:
> The problem I have is with the on board ATI Xpress 200 video. When 
> anaconda tries to start up X the display is color hashed. I eventually 
> installed using the text install but I can't get the networking to 
> work properly and most of the setup utils require X. I tried 
> installing the ATI proprietary driver but it doesn't work with Xorg7.
>
The solution to my problem was to boot using:

linux vesa

This seems to force use of the vesa driver that seems to work fine with 
the ATI Radeon Xpress 200. It also sets vesa as the X driver for the 
installed system.

John