I encountered an interesting problem with a new installation of RH9.

The XFree86 Server starts up, but the display does nothing.

I am running a 1.1Ghz AMD, with a Radeon 7500 video card. All hardware except the sound card is in the compatibility list. The X Server is configured correctly, and works. The problem is, the monitor shuts down due to lack of output from the video card, as far as I can tell. What I need to know is: Is it possible that the X server isn't starting the window manager (GNOME or KDE), therreby causing the system to hang?

When the problem first came up, I immediately suspected that the video card wasn't configured correctly, so I re configured it, and ran XFree86 in test mode, the server started up fine and I was able to move the mouse all over the wonderfully bland desktop it created.

I would like your thoughts. I am not exactly a newbie to Linux, but I'm still weak in some areas. I checked through all the forums, RedHat.com, and a few other places. I even RTFM.

Thanks