[Newbie]ATI AIW RADEON Problems w/ 4.1

[Xenophanes21]

Several days of effort with no success...

Hardware:
 ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon (32 MB)
 Samsung SyncMaster 955DF
 Athlon 1.4 GHz w/ 1 GB RAM

Software:
 Red Hat 7.1 (shrink wrap) installed on new hard drive

First:  At installation of Red Hat Xconfigurator locked system.  Reinstalled
several times before achieving _some_ graphics capability with Generic VGA
card and generic monitor refresh rates.  

Second:  Installed XFree86 4.1 per latest instructions, including errata re:
removing buggy glide_drv.o.  After installed XFree86 -configure seemed to
succeed, but upon trying to run Xserver locked again.  (Locks with grey
pixelated screen, similar to the grey screen seen at X startup sometimes.)

Based on the information here and elsewhere I would have thought that
upgrading to 4.1 would solve my problem, but it has not as of yet.  

Could the be a monitor issue?  The refresh rates is determines automatically
are correct, based on the monitor specifications.  The standard mode refresh
rates (including pixels) are slightly off from the recommendations, but I
haven't seen anybody pinpoint those as causes of other problems or
recommendations about changing them.

Could acceleration be an issue?  I don't know whether it is trying to run in
accelerated mode or not...indications in the Xpert archive that dri and the
radeon driver have a bug which prevents that.

Anybody have the ATI AIW Radeon working with Red Hat?  If not, how about any
Linux distro?

No answers from Red Hat tech support yet...

Thanks in advance.

Jeremy Rishel