Something catastrophic seems to have happened at a low-level. That "Cannot read colourmap from VGA" message seems to imply that writing or reading the video hardware has failed. Did you change something about the machine? For instance, some bios settings, or add a new PCI card? Mark. On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Wassim Bassalee wrote: > Hi all, > > The X server on my Mandrake 9.0 Linux > machine stopped booting yesterday. > The XFree86.0.log is attached to this > e-mail message. > I'll truly apprecite any suggestions > on where to proceed from here. > > Thank you, > Wassim _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86