Louis,
When you boot your PC, enter the number 3 at the first grub boot screen. This will boot you up without X in console mode.
Grazie. Haven't got used to Grub (as opposed to Lilo) yet.
It would seem to me that your old XF86Config should have worked as it did before. If not get a working config (even if the res is not what you want) and copy the Screen, Modes, and Monitor sections over from your old one. If your video card has changed, the screen section may not be able to be copied over. In that case try simple entries like the following:
Nope, same video card. The problem *could* be broken support for my video card. The wierd thing is, when I start it with the old XF86Config, I get an error message from the monitor (don't know what it says, error messages have an annoying habit of displaying for 0.3 seconds) and then XFree drops to 1024x768 mode. It also can't seem to size to the screen correctly; the display is too tall for the screen by about 2". Why I find this all mysterios is that, in 8.2, there was a specific monitor option for the 180P in YaST -- which worked brilliantly, and is part of the reason why I bought the monitor. Now the 180P choice is gone from YaST, and not explanation exists in the SDB. -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco