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
