Yeah....i realized that about an hour after I made the initial post.....turns out Debian doesn't want to see my mouse...when I run startx after I get the flashing pretty colors to go away it tells me that it cant find /dev/mouse and that it cant start the core pointer.....when I changed /dev/mouse to something that did exist (don't ask) x came right up but the keyboard and mouse were not functioning....oh well....maybe it is my laptop telling me it only has eyes for slackware....<shrug> Dan Lansing -----Original Message----- From: Ben Lutgens [mailto:blutgens at us-admins.com] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 5:44 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] look how smart i am!!! actually X comes with twm. If X is "Flashing" as you say, something is wrong with the configuration and _that's_ why X won't start. Have a look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log for some possible reasons why. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list