Well, I'm pretty new to Linux. So far I really like it, but I'm having some trouble with X windows. First of all, anything I want to do in the BASH console works fine. . . but as soon as I start up X, I run into trouble. It loads fine, but as soon as I try to do anything more complicated than watching my screen saver fly by, I can be certain it will crash within 5 minutes.

My computer I'm using Linux on isn't all that spectacular. Something like a PentiumIII 4-year-old Packard Bell with a snazy new wireless keyboard and mouse and a new NIC I jammed in there. I've tried Mandrake 8.1 and RedHat 7.2 and both suffer from the same problem.

Sometimes when I try to launch something like Netscape, it shows the loading icon in the system tray, but then afterwards it just dissapears. Then if I try to launch it again, the computer freezes (I thought Lin couldn't do that =-( I've been having this problem for a while and I've tried both KDE and GNome, but neither helped the problem. I've tried using Konqueror and Nautilus instead of Netscape... no effect.

Does anyone have ANY clue as to what my problem might be. If you need any more information on my problem, I can provide it.
Thanks to anyone who can help me here!