After having run a script supplied for the purpose of configuring fc3 so when X comes up gnopernicus will berunning, I found telinit 5 works and also found startx does not work. telinit 5 is fine for root access but won't work for user access. For that reason after saving new stuff copied down for the system I'm going to try a reinstall of fc3 as a desktop workstation type then run that script again to see if startx will then work on that new system. As things stand, linux does not probe my video monitor and attempts to startx only error out since linux thinks my monitor is set up incorrectly. Will let you know what happens when I know.