vikas

I have a Sony Vaio Desktop Rs755, 2.0 P4, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB HD, ATI All-in-Wonder VE Video Card. I tried to install Mandrake 9.0 three times and I tried installing Redhat 9.0 twice, however each time the display does not show after going thru the initial boot process. After the display went out, the only thing I could do was press ctrl-alt-del to reboot the system. Does anyone have any idea what might be the problem? Is there some special configuration in Vaio computers that may prevent Linux from displaying properly or at all?

I'm not sure if it actually does. The screen goes blank right after it does the "first boot" check. Then once the screen goes blank, I wait a little while and then try to put in my user name and password, but nothing really happens (the hard drive doesn't think). I also checked ATI's website to see if they have any updates for linux, but they don't have any that pertain to my video card, so either it's supposed to run properly or not run at all. I checked other sites and they say my video card should be compatible however.

Actually I can't even sign in. The display doesn't last long enough for me to reach that screen. Is there someway to possibly disable the graphics and just view everything in a shell so i can make these changes?