Hi all, I've managed to completely kill my system, and in the great tradition of thee things I don't really know why... I updated X in Debian/Woody, and by only using half my ass got things somewhat confused, and X wouldn't start (with many odd messages). After a while I stumbled upon the fact that I was still running v3. of X, rather than the 4 I had thought (can you tell I'm a newbie?) I found the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 command (or something like that), which seemed to go well. The only problem at the end was that it wouldn't recognize my mouse (/dev/ttyS3) I checked and it didn't have write enabled for group, so I made a lucky guess at the correct CHMOD syntax and fixed? that. It was also complaining about not having a /dev/input/mice, so I created that as a link to /dev/ttyS3. Don't know if it's relevant, but ls -l ttyS* said that all four ports were dialout? So I logged in (still su to root) and got X, KDE etc., but a big fuzzy block where my mouse pointer should be. So I exited out of root, and startx as myself. My monitor clicks as it changes resolution, then a black screen. And that's it. No ctrl-alt-del, ctrl-alt-bksp, or (ctrl)-alt-F(1-7) has any effect, and I have to hard reboot. But as I use KDM this takes me straight back to the same place. I tried rescue from the debian setup disk, but this takes me to the same place (not what I was expecting). So, any suggestions on how to get in to fix it, and what should I fix?! Thanks, Paul