[ChemicalMonkey]

Are school is running Red Hat 2.6 with ATI Radeon 7000 Video cards...which it doesnt support to well...

Every time i boot up and it loads the screen gets all messed up and all i can see is the mouse, everything else is a red/blue/green criss cross pattern.

No x windows commands will work either and i cant manage to get into text mode instead of gui so i can edit the xorg.conf file...

Any ideas on a way to fix all this? and be very specific...idk jack about linux, im an Windows person lol

[saikee]

Have you tried

ctrl+alt+backspace

Apart from the usual ctrl+alt+F1 to F4?

The above should get you into the text mode. If all fail you can always boot up any Linux Live CD, mount the Red Hat Partition to edit its xorg.conf.

Once in xorg.conf suggest changing the video driver to "ati", "radeon", "vesa" to see if one of them work.

Lastly you have to ensure the horizontal and vertical frequencies in xorg.conf matching the monitor.

[ChemicalMonkey]

Thanks a bunch, i got it working from text mode (ctrl alt backspace got me into it)

all edited and finished yahhhhhhhhhhh