I did this once before, I copied the file xf86setup.rpm from my old installation CD and used a tool to either convert that .rpm package directly to .deb format, or had used an intermediate step, I can't remember... Surely somebody knows how to do this ?? thank you ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fethi Okyar Research Assistant Computational Solid Mechanics MMAE Department, IIT Chicago, IL 60616-3793 e-mail: afo@or219a.iit.edu IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII