CDE (Common Disktop Environment) problem

Hi all:
I installed Solaris 8 on an Intel Dual pentium 550MHz. with 128 mb of RAM. Eveything installed correctly. But when the system rebooted, after logging into the system with the CDE, there is a long delay before I can see anything on the screen. Eventually a help window and a file manager window show up on the screen. But I am not able to move anything on the screen. It always core dumps. In the /dev/dt/Xerrors, it always has something about DPMS is not supported. I have changed the video card to many different brands which were in the hardware compatibility list from sun and still the same results. The behaviour is the same no matter what Video card I use. The Open desktop Environment seems to be working Ok. Please help as to what may be the problem.
THANKS,
Monga.

Thanks Manish.
I've done that you told me, but the CDE continues on the same form that describes Mongal. the xset command displays that it's disabled and that the display is nit capable of DPMS
I's intalled in a IBM Aptiva PII 266, 112Mb RAM, and a ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2X with 4Mb VRAM. But the Solaris regonize the VGA in the installation program. It's possible that the VGA has a poor quantity of memory to run the CDE?
Perhaps if I write you what appears in /var/dt/Xerrors, it will help you.
X_mkdir: No such file or directory.
X_mkdir: No such file or directory.
ATI,21: ATI264GB - 3D RAGE PRO (4096k @81000000, [0.000 - 200.000MHz).
DPMSSupported: Nu such device.
Frame Buffer 0 does not support PDMS.
Another thing, How I can chane the resolution of the Xwindows in solaris, because it's different than Linux.
Thanks for your attention, and waiting your response:
Gerardo.

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