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I am a new Linux (Slackware 3.0.0) "user" (still in the setting up stage!) so please excuse my ignorance. From all those Linux ThinkPad users out ther, is there anyone that can tell me what I am doing wrong when trying to get X working under Linux (XFree86 3.1.2 - the version that supports WD90C24). I have the VGA (640x480) version of the TP 755cx. I am using xf86config and give the following answers: 31.5 kHz hsync; Standard VGA, 640x480 @60 Hz Monitor 50-90 vsync range WD 90C24 (laptop) video card XF86_SVGA server 1024K video memory No Clockchip setting Running X -probeonly (logged in as root) from within xf86config I get: Running X -probeonly -pn -xf86config /tmp/XF86Config.tmp. X -probeonly call failed. No Clocks line inserted. however if I just run X -probeonly directly (presumably without the rest of the command line) I get (amongst other things) three lines of Clocks mostly about 28.34 and one 49.82 followed by: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode "640x480" Removing mode "640x480" from list of valid modes There is no mode definition named "800x600" Removing mode named "800x600" from list of valid modes There is no mode definition named "1024x768" Fatal server error: No valid modes found. This is (of course) the same as the messages I get when I try and run startx, when I also get: xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unexpected signal 13 before returning me to the command line prompt. This is all on a more or less vanilla system (I haven't embarked on APM or PCMCIA support yet!) installed as close to default as possible. I am sure that it is just my lack of understanding of what Linux does with its files, or some other trivial problem. Anyone give me any help (or a 640x480 TP577cx XF86Config)? TIA Geoff Hogan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr G P Hogan Laser Group, Clarendon Laboratory, Tel: +44 1865 272205 Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU Fax: +44 1865 272400 UK Email: g.hogan@physics.ox.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------