Some background: I'm running RedHat 6 on an old DEC Pentium
90 computer with
onboard S3 video.

While working to set up Samba on my computer, I tried to
restart
Enlightenment.  The system crashed, and I had no choice but
to power down in
order to reboot.  Now it's doing something utterly bizarre.

I'm set to runlevel 5, so it's supposed to go into x
automatically.  The
computer tries to do so...or at least I think that's what
it's doing.  The
screen just keeps flashing on and off, over and over, for
about a minute.
When it finally stops, this message appears, over and over:

"According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running
(697), but seems to
have been murdered mysteriously."

This appears about a dozen times, with different job
numbers each time.
Then at the end:

"INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes."

Sure enough, the cycle repeats itself every five minutes.

When I try to go into X manually, I get an error message
like this:

Fatal server error:
Cannot open mouse (No such device)

I do have a mouse, and it worked fine up till the system
crash.

Now...what does all this mean?  Help!  Please....?