Hi, I'm still trying to setup X windows and make it compatible with my ATI Rage 128 Pro video card. This card is not supported with the XFree86 software supplied with slink Debian linux. Fortunately, I found help on the web (David St. Clair at http://www4.ncsu.edu/~distclai/rage128-howto.html) who wrote a configuation tool to setup XF86Config. The problem is that it only works with XFree86 4.x - so I installed the 4.0.1 (?) version (the most recent available). So I constructed a proper(?) XF86Config and ran startx. The result: it looks okay - but everything is frozen. The system locks. Hmmm.
Now, some of you may have read my earlier cry for help when my system would freeze on booting - just when it came to run xfs. It gave the following complaint message: Starting X font server: xfsFontCacheInitialize: hi=1045876, lo=786432, bal=70 just before it froze. To get around the problem of the boot freeze, I disabled xfs, and was able to get into the system as before. I assume that the problem with xfs may be related to my problem with the system locking when I run startx. Finally, for what it's worth, when I log into the system with xfs disabled, the following message is displayed: Checking for valid XFree86 server configuration...error in configuation file Any help with this problem would be appreciated! Thanks, James Polson