Somebody in the thread at some point said: > 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 guess the first question is: what is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf? The second question: what is at the end of /var/log/Xorg.0.log? -Andy