Thanks to everyone for their input. I renamed the former XFree86 file to xorg and changed the XkbRules as suggested. Everything seems OK. It boots up into the GUI as it should.
However, there does seem to be one strange thing that has been changed. The GUI is back, but the screen seems to be larger than the monitor now. I can drag a window and it will keep going both right and left quite a ways past the edge of the monitor. The resolutions and sync rates are as they were before. I DO have it set for TV out, but it is working correctly in "clone" mode, not side-by-side. Weird. Not related to the GUI-not-starting problem.... but the same apt-get upgrade installed tons of stuff. Now whenever any user logs in or changes users it throws up this series of errors: configuration error - unknown item 'QUOTAS_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'NOLOGIN_STR' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_HZ' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MAX_LEN' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'CLOSE_SESSIONS' (notify administrator) This seems to be part of the file /etc/login.defs ... but I am not sure what the error is supposed to be telling me to do. Craig
