X marks the spot -- NOT!!!

[Steve Ettorre <sme nycap rr com>]

Hi Folks,

Hope everyone is having a good holiday season. Well...I finally got RH 8 
installed the hard way. Did a minimum, bare bones install to avoid the 
dreaded "Error Installing Package" fatality. This worked. I then 
installed all the packages I wanted by hand off the CDs. My problem now 
is getting X to start. I setup the XF86Config file using 
redhat-config-xfree86 and mouseconfig. I have tried to start X using by 
16 and 24 bits depth. I see the "x" symbol and then it dies. I get no 
error messages in my XFree86 log file. When I try to start X in root, I 
sometimes see the following message on the console:

fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer)

List below is some details about my system. If helpful, I could post 
some of the information from my XF86Config and log file.

TIA,
Steve


***********some info**************
AMD K6-2 CPU

256 MB memory

2 - 8.4 GB HDDs [ 1-Win98, 1-RH8 ]

ATI Xpert @ Play 98 VideoCard - 8MB Ram [Note: in XF86Config it is setup 
with device as "ATI Mach64" and driver "ati"]

3 Button serial mouse [ Note: I use "MouseSystems" protocol and the 
device is: /dev/gpmdata. I run gpm as: /usr/sbin/gpm -t ms -B 123 -3 -R]

[Note: I saw a post in which someone was having problems starting X due 
to bad disk blocks. I have done an fsck on all my filesystems]