I just blew away my box and re-installed. All went rather well, but when I try to start X, I get this:
... <All the normal mode line stuffs> ... (--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1" (--) SVGA: PCI: ATI Rage128 RF rev 0, Memory @ 0xe0000000, 0xde800000, I/O @ 0xd800 Using XFree86 ATI driver version 4.5. Unknown graphics controller detected. Unknown chip descriptor in BIOS: 0x3F3F0000. Unknown video adapter detected. Brooktree 476 or similar RAMDAC detected. Support for this video adapter is highly experimental! X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). {0}:iggy:/home/nomad>dpkg --list | grep xserver ii xserver-common 3.3.5-1.99.sli files and utilities common to all X servers ii xserver-mach64 3.3.5-1.99.sli X server for ATI Mach64-based graphics cards ii xserver-s3 3.3.5-1.99.sli X server for S3 chipset-based graphics cards ii xserver-svga 3.3.5-1.99.sli X server for SVGA graphics cards ii xserver-vga16 3.3.5-1.99.sli X server for VGA graphics cards I'm using the XF86Config file I used under Redhat on this same system. No I don't know what version of XF86 I was running with that, but it was whatever was the most current. Am I running the most current stable version? If now, how do I upgrade? apt-get upgrade says there's nothing to upgrade. Robert --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert L. Harris | "A person is smart; Senior System Engineer | People are dumb, panicky R&D Consulting. \_ dangerous animals" - Agent K http://www.rnd-consulting.com/~nomad DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'