system - 233 MHz pentium
128 MB ram
sondblaster 32 awe pnp isa 
advansys 540 pnp isa  SCSI controller
fujistu 4.3 gig harddrive
"compaq OEM" matrox millenium with 2mb memory upgrade.


graphical install wolverine;
It makes to the point where it sys "detecting mouse type" and then  the 
screen changes to 2 inch blue squares with horizontal/vertical two inch 
black bars

text install;
it makes it all the way then and end of install switches to black screen 
and freezes. On reboot I do not get graphical login - I get the login for 
the shell only.

Switching to Creative Graphic Blaster Extreme I complete graphical install 
completely/successfully

I tried redhat 6.2 also;

graphical
After it gets all setup info the dialog "getting package information" (or 
something  close to that) and then the screen switches to a series of 
blue "@@@@" with some sideways red block cursors for about 1/4 screen 
black for the rest

text
System freezes near end where it is "loading font files"

With Creative Graphics Blaster Extreme in machine and doing graphical 
install for redhat 6.2 I get the idea to select "matrox millenium 4mb" 
where monitor/x configuration is, figuring I could "fool" it into 
installing. With Creative card in machine install freezes at the loading 
point "The font files for the text formatting - Remaining system packages 
size 59M"

I do know that Matrox made some OEM cards that were not the same as their 
off the shelf retail cousins. Whether this is or not I don't know.

I can't provide too much detail (such as conf) beyond this as I'm 
completely new to linux - fresh from windows