> set it to '/usr/bin/X11/XF86_S3V' after you hav installed the server > and it should work. that helps a lot thanks. one question it appears that the debian setup actually has a wrapper installed for security reasons so that you aren't supposed to run them directly. do you know, is the Xserver file what the wrapper uses to determine what to exec? or does this mean that i'm exec'ing the s3v server directly. thanks for the help, adam.