On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:42:56PM -0500, 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? When I installed X 4.1.0 (in gentoo Linux), it made me put the config file at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config. Maybe the same is required for you... Gabe -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu SGI Origin Systems Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------