I completed installation without error but x will not start (or rather will not start correctly.)
I suspect it has something to do with my eMachines integrated graphics chip, but an not really sure. When I boot, everything is fine, but the screen just goes black when GDM starts, however the system appears to be running fine from what I can tell logging on to different tty's.
This is the relevent end of /var/log/messages
The tuner card is also very cheap and generic and although I have since removed it, reinstalled, and gotten the same error, I thought it could hurt to provide that part of the log as well.

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Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: i810_rng hardware driver 0.9.8 loaded
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: i2c-core.o: i2c core module
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: bttv: driver version 0.7.104 loaded
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: bttv: Host bridge is Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Host Bridge
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 02:0b.0, irq: 23, latency: 132, mmio: 0xf8000000
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: bttv0: detected: (Askey Magic/others) TView99 CPH06x [card=38], PCI subsystem ID is 144f:3000
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: bttv0: using: BT878(Askey CPH06X TView99) [card=38,autodetected]
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0.
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: bttv0: using tuner=-1
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951)
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: i2c-core.o: driver generic i2c audio driver registered.
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: bttv0: registered device video0
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: bttv0: registered device vbi0
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered.
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: tuner: probing bt848 #0 i2c adapter [id=0x10005]
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: tuner: chip found @ 0xc0
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: i2c-core.o: client [(tuner unset)] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0).
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xe08eb000, 00:40:2b:6c:80:c1, IRQ 17
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,4), internal journal
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jan 13 21:56:38 BeBopTV kernel: blk: queue c03319e0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Jan 13 21:56:45 BeBopTV kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
Jan 13 21:56:45 BeBopTV kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 438M
Jan 13 21:56:45 BeBopTV kernel: agpgart: Detected an Intel 845G Chipset.
Jan 13 21:56:45 BeBopTV kernel: agpgart: detected 892K stolen memory.
Jan 13 21:56:45 BeBopTV kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000
Jan 13 21:56:46 BeBopTV kernel: [drm] AGP 0.99 aperture @ 0xf0000000 128MB
Jan 13 21:56:46 BeBopTV kernel: [drm] Initialized i830 1.3.2 20021108 on minor 0
Jan 13 21:56:46 BeBopTV kernel: mtrr: base(0xf0020000) is not aligned on a size(0x400000) boundary
Jan 13 22:16:38 BeBopTV -- MARK --


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Here some autodetect information for my video "card" and capture card. This information comes from booting from a MandrakeMove cd and looking at the hardware configuration, so this may or may not be 100% depending on the reliability of the mandrakemove distro to identify my specific hardware.
video card
Vender: Intel Corporation
Bus: PCI
Bus ID 8086:2562:109f:3186
Location on the bus: 0:2:0
Description: 82845 CGC (chipset graphics controller)
Module: Card:Intel 845
Media class: DISPLAY_VGA


tuner
Vendor: Brooktree Corporation
Bus: PCI
Bus ID: 109e:36e:144f:3000
Location on the bus: 2:b:0
Description: Bt878
Module: bttv
Media class: MULTIMEDIA_VIDEO


Thanks

check to make sure that your refresh rates in XF86Config-4 are appropriate for your monitor or tv whatever you are outputting to.

Got it, I changed the hsync rate, and also I think it was looking at the wrong bus. I changed it to the bus that Mandrake Move gave me, and now I'm rockin the X.

Thanks.

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