Mark When you say that Xconfigure dumped you out and shut down linux did that occur when it was probing your vid card or when setting your screen res. Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 7:58 PM Subject: [newbie] ..it happens and now it happened to me:) I downloaded 7.1 iso files for mandrake. I burned the cd, it autostarted everything looked cool until I got to xconfigure. Something is broken with X because dumped me out of set and shut down linux. What do I do now. I am pretty good with the terminal window but don't want to run linux only from the command line. anyone else have trouble with the x config with 7.1 install. Any suggestions would be apreciated. Mark
