I'm pretty new to the Linux environment myself and I can understand you're growing pains.
<useful stuff> One thing I did learn is if your session is hung you can type <ALT>F2-F6 to get to another login session. This way, you can shut your machine down properly. </useful stuff> > So, having drawn a blank, I went in and used > XF86Setup to set up the S3 > driver, but clicking the "Done" button hung my > machine solid. Rebooting > showed my filesystems to be partly trashed. Oh > great! > > I'll restate my original complaint - Why is it so > difficult to set up X? > [ the following is the opinion of the sender] Being a programmer, I've learned languages, some more "arcane" than others. By coming to a different environment you should resign to the fact that you will be scanning newsgroups and mail-groups, combing through things for valuable information. I came here to learn. Learn the environment, how to best exploit it to my ends, and learn how things work. It's just the nature of the beast. If you don't want to learn this new environment, I'm sure you can stay with Windows and not be bothered learning how to configure X, apache and its Secure Socket Layer, write Python scripts, Perl scripts, shell scripts, etc. I ask you, how did you learn you're favorite application, if not hitting help files, books, and maybe even news groups. Now instead of an application, you're diving into an entirely different environment. If you want to learn be prepared to hit man pages, HOWTO links, and even e-mail groups to learn. I apologize for this off-topic rant. Scott __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/