<PRE> Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, roberto@cbvcp.com produced:

When I try to start x (command=startx), it gives me an error that two directories are missing, one under var and the other under user. i have

Which ones? Without exact error messages it's kind of hard to do mindreading, not to mention fixing problems.

reinstalled suse many times today and i am at my wits end. when i go into xf86 setup under YaST, it tells me that i have not setup an svga server under /usr/X11R6/bin/svga . Do i need to do this and what will enable me to use x?

XF86Setup is actually running under X. It uses a simple X server that works almost everywhere but is not powerful at all. Since you happen to be able to run XF86Setup this one (xvga16) is installed. You stumble over the problem when you want XF86setup to use the SVGA server later on (lucky you that I did play with that recently, you should have told me; making me guess things is ... not really helpful and polite). Now, yast and the package description will already have told you that you have to install the X server you intend to use BEFORE installing (xsvga in that case) and so please DO install it. THEN run XF86Setup. And then it should work. (Reason: you don't want to be stuck with a slow server and 16 colours, you want all the power your card has. That means we need a more specialized server. To configure it it must be there, so ...)

all of my hardware is supported.

Mind telling us which graphics card that is? My mindreading IS bad today. -Wolfgang (who hates incomplete error messages ... "My computer's broken!" is *not* a good error report) -- PGP:"finger weissel@jupiter.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de";use a keyserver (3CCC0B59). Outlaw PGP, kidnappers might use it. | SPAM, MLM, MMF, UCE, etc unwanted!! Outlaw cars, kidnappers might use one. | The only way I'd deal with spammers Outlaw kids, kidnappers might use them.| would break some huge cricket bats. </PRE> <A HREF="pgp00002.pgp"> PGP signature</A></P>