Hello Richard, If I understood you right, there may be involved other's Distros 'update' features...?
I'm not very skilled in X-related things, and I know just a little about Debian Linux... anyway. 1) What's in your X-log. On Woody, it might be stored in /var/log/XFree86.0.log It's a good thing to check at first ;-) 2) Default path on my machine is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Do you have a file there ? Do you have a backup of your old ( working ) Config ? Try to use it, then. X-Setup tools backup generally, I hope. 3) I wonder about the sections in your Config....seem to be rather minimalistic configured...because of some good autodetection ? To illustrate, I give you 2 xamples from my Config: Section "Monitor" ends with two lines like HorizSync 30-95 VertRefresh 50-160 Section "Screen" looks like Identifier "Default Screen" Device "Generic Video Card" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x400" EndSubSection EndSection It's just wild guessed. But, HTH anyway... -- Michl.