Display shutting down on first boot

[Andy Green]

Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> On 04/08/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Problem#3 with installing Fedora 7:
>>
>> After the first boot setup screen, in which one defines a user, I got
>> a message similar to this:
>> The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90
>> seconds. It is likely that something bad is going on. Waiting for 2
>> minutes before trying again on display :0.
>>
>> After clicking OK, I got the message again after a few minutes of a
>> blank screen.
>>
>> This is on a Dell Inspiron laptop, Duo Core Intel, 2GB RAM, ATI X1400 video.
>>
> 
> I do have a working xorg.conf from FC6 backed up on disk. How can I
> get to a prompt so that I can copy it to this F7 install?

Not sure that is the right idea... after all a lot has changed
underneath a "working xorg.conf" from FC6.".  The question is, what is
the Driver line in the "Device" stanza.  To get yourself going, try
setting Driver "vesa" in there.

-Andy