> Thanks for all the help! But its still a no go. I tried what > everyone suggested.. Even went so far as to run redhat-config-xfree86 > --set-<every option I could> ! It still bombs out. I get the hour > glass, but no user interface comes up, a few seconds later, the > xserver resets and tries again. does this 4 times and then give me a > text mode error. The same one I wrote about earlier. So apparently, > my xserver has been abducted by aliens... anyone know how I can get > in touch with Fox Mulder??? 8-) Well, your X are working properly. As you said, it comes up, shows hour glass which means that X is configured properly. It seems that after X is started it is trying to start something else (window manager, display manager...) and it fails. Check your other files/libraries. -- Eng. Dusan Djordjevic (RHCE) -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list