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 > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >