-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jude, How about doing a complete uninstall and purge of X, then installing from scratch? The X system does work for many people. Sorry I don't have a more constructive suggestion. Chuck On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 08:54:11AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Everything failed. Even with a real root account being used the same > behavior happens. The really upsetting thing about this is that > dpkg-reconfigure makes an /etc/X11/Xorg.conf.dpkg-new file as you answer > the questions and erases it everytime the update fails. If it would just > write that file to disk I could do the update with a simple mv command. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (5% of Full) My web site is located at: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. A.N. Turing, 1950 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHENce0maTgpPXM9cRAp73AJwJrA62cpl1FW9ulvyIBZKjNumtSACeLXr0 vaoykk6duBB6HzBK+7UcFCM= =zTX8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----