Ok, I'm really getting discouraged here. Here's the situation. I have a really old computer (about 5 years old), the video card is built onto the motherboard, it's an S3 Virge with 2 Mb of video ram. I was successfully running XFree86 3.3.6 with the S3V server, using horizontal refresh rate of 31.5-48.5, and vertical refresh rate 50-100. (I'm running Debian 2.2). This was working fine until I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" and inadvertently upgraded to XFree86 4.0.1 and now X doesn't work. I ran the dexter utility and selected my keyboard and mouse. It then asked me for the specs on my monitor, so I typed in the above refresh rates, assuming they'd work fine. Now when I boot up Linux, it says "Starting xdm..." and then it drops me to the command prompt. (I had been using gdm, but I'm using xdm just until I get everything working). This never happened before. It used to be that it would say "Starting gdm..." and then it would take me automatically to console 7 and I could log in at the graphical login box. Instead what it does now is drop me to a command prompt. It sits there for about 2 or 3 minutes, and then it switches to console 7. Now here's the weird part (or another weird part, I should say). It appears that even though I'm using the same settings as in 3.3.6, they don't work. When I finally get to the graphical login box, the screen is totally messed up. I don't believe it is a resolution problem. The screen is all wavy and completely unreadable. I don't want to damage my monitor, so I usually end up having to press control-alt-delete and reboot. If anyone has gotten X 4.0.1 to work with an S3 virge, could you lend me a hand? I'd be happy to post any config files that are necessary. I'm really frustrated right now. I'm at the point where I feel like wiping my system and reinstalling the old version, since my system is virtually unusable without X. I'm able to get online and download packages, and I'm able to edit config files all from the prompt, but that's about it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Casey -- Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.umaine.edu/~hender97/