problem just after FC4 install

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Greetings,

	I have FC4 dual booting with Windows XP on a new machine with my old
monitor.  The FC4 installation from the CDs appeared to be successful.
	The start-up of FC4 appears normal too -- the messages resemble those
which appear during the old FC3 boot with the services starting up
successfully -- until, I think, just before the Fedora login screen
should appear.  Then a blizzard of messages zip by before I can read
them until a low resolution graphics screen appears with the option: "I
cannot start the X server.  It is likely that it is not set up
correctly.  Would you like to view the X server output to diagnose the
problem?"  Replying "yes" gives some sort of log that's not immediately
revealing to me -- again, too much information!  Replying "no" brings up
a similar low-resolution screen that asks me if I want to set the X
windows display.  Replying "yes" to that brings up a familiar-looking
screen resolution widget.  When I set the screen resolution to 1280 X
1024 (which works fine on this monitor for Windows XP now and did work
on the old box/monitor combination running FC3) the screen goes blank
and the system appears to hang.  But after I hit enter a few times the
login screen appears normally.
	FC4 seems to be running OK and I have "save system setup" activated but
I'm still having to go through this routine whenever I boot.  Something
must be set wrong, somewhere....  OK, it probably has something to do
with the way X windows is interacting with the graphics and monitor.
	Any suggestions as to how to proceed -- or where to look for clues and
what to look for -- would be most appreciated.

Jerry


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