Your XF86Config (resp. XF86Config-4) would be useful. It looks as if in your screen section you did not have a display subsection which fit with your card / monitor / resolution combination Lionel --- Support at Saudi ABM <support@saudiabm.com> wrote: > Hello > I have XFree86 3.3.6 , I download 4.2.0 and follow > http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.2.0/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc22/Install > step by step (I used Xinstall.sh ) , the installation . After that I used > xf86config and xf86cfg to make XF86Config and that was fine too. > But when I type startx I get : __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/