Dear Brian, you should not have wiped Debian off because it's great :-( . Please understand: To help you we must know 1. what exactly you configured 2. what specific error occurred. The easiest way for that is to attach these files to your message: /etc/X11/XF86Config and /var/log/XFree86.0.log . Regards, Joachim -- Joachim Fahnenmüller Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik Herder-Gymnasium Kattowitzer Straße 52 51065 Köln