Paul Anderson wrote: "When you're monitor is displaying the "Out of Range" message, hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the console. Then, login as root. Next, run XFree86 -configure" this was about the second thing I tried (after interactive startup) and it yields the dreaded message: "fatal server error: server is already active for display 0" (if this server is no longer running type remove /tmp /.x0-lock and start again" but of course it is running...) oh, and pressing 'I' to enter the interactive startup mode is just ignored, can't say why... !carte