Hi, I have fedora core 1 installed and I was having the same problem today as my Xwindow crashed when I played with VMware. Disclaimer : I am a newbie to linux and so try these commands on ur own risk as I don't know if they damage the system ...but I did not have any alternative. I fixed the problem by finding on google- 1) I went to runlevel 3 and if then run X -configure ( or X --configure) Then it will create XF86Config.new in the directory that you are working on ( I run that command in /root) ( Also this command will produce a blank screen with a mouse cursor. I think then I pressed "CTRL ALT F1" to go to shell from where I executed this command and pressed Ctrl C to stop it). 2) Then, cp XF86Config.new /etc/X11 3) Rename XF86Config.new as XF86Config (Backup old XF86Config files for safety) 4) run redhat-config-xfree86 ( not system-config-xree ) . You can find this binary in redhat-config-xfree86 5) Select monitor , resolution etc. Press OK. Reboot machine. X windows should run fine. Hope this helps Regards Shirish -- Fedora-config-list mailing list Fedora-config-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-config-list