Aloha again, With some welcome help from several folks in this group I was successful in getting my new Linux box with Asus P4P800 board and Nvidia GEFORCE-FX video card up and working. The startx command brought up the GNOME desktop and all was well - then I made a very bad move. I downloaded 'Yahoo Messenger' for Red Hat8 (from the Yahoo site) while in my root account in RH9. Yes I know, this was really dumb! The next day I typed in 'startx' after my root login - No gui, No Gnome just a notice of- "waiting for X server to shut down". Also instructions to look at /var/log/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/XF86Config. There are no errors listed and every thing looks normal. The good news is that I created a new user account and everything still works perfectly when I startx from that new account. I removed all references to 'ymessenger' that I could find (whereis..) one from root-ls and others in /usr. Still unable to get startx to work. Feeling very humble at the moment. Anyone have any idea of how I can get my root account back to normal? Thanks, jared <jarlynne@xxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
