And you need to be root to do it, not a regular user.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, 12 August 2004 3:57 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: RE: video driver problems


> I did answer them as best i could and it asked if it could
> overwrite the
>       /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/XF86Config
> file. Being brave and/or foolish i said "Y" but the machine 
> complained:
>       failed to open filename for writing

The file you want to write to is /etc/X11/XF86Config or
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4


Later

David Kirk

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