Just a thought...you might have tried this already.

Did the package install an /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file? If
so I bet that one is taking precidence and is probably not setup
correctly.  You might try moving that -4 file out of the way and trying it
again.

Dave

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Yaron wrote:

>   Hey,
> 
> Well, my debian box finally upgraded itself to X 4.1.0. Now when I run X
> (via 'startx' or even just 'X') it says:
> 
>   (EE) Unable to locate/open config file
>   (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile()
> 
>   Fatal server error:
>   no screens found
> 
> My old /etc/X11/XF86Config file is still there.
> 
> I can get X to run when I go:
> 
>   X -xf86config /etc/X11/XF86Config
> 
> But this has two problems:
> 
> (A) You can only do it as root. As a regular user, it refuses to accept a
> full path to the config file. Also, copying the config file to the current
> dir doesn't seem to work.
> 
> (B) I can't seem to get it into the startx commandline - "startx --
> -xf86config /etc/X11/XF86Config" just sits there.
> 
> Any insight?
> 
> 
> 
> -Yaron
> 
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