Hi, > No joy, in both cases the file /tmp/out.log is of zero length > and the output scrolls to screen. hmm. At least X -scanpci 2>/tmp/log should work. I does for me. hmmm. Does it write a log in /var/log/X* ? Regards, T. Weyergraf -- Thomas Weyergraf kirk@colinet.de My Favorite IA64 Opcode-guess ( see arch/ia64/lib/memset.S ) "br.ret.spnt.few" - got back from getting beer, did not spend a lot.