I finally got a second PCI video card, and hooked up a monitor to it. Wrote my config file no problem. works great when I start it as root. however, running as an ordinary user; startx gives me error messages about "Authentication Failed -- cannot start X server Perhaps you do not have console ownership? giving up." I _did_ have it working once; but then I started trying to get xinerama working, and after leaving it for a day, X doesn't want to start now. X4's server isn't SUID like the old ones were; (which probaby accounts for why xserverrc files cause problems now); and I don't see any SUID files along the startx->xauth->xinit->XFree86 series. when I had it working; X _was_ running as root, however. I'm going to guess that xauth is the culprit here; but I don't know why/how. cookies are put into .Xauthority at start time. also, how does one specify to start xinerama automatically? 'startx -- +xinerama' will work; but is there a way to put that in a config file somewhere? .xserverrc would seem to be the place; but I believe that would only work if XFree86 were SUID. how have other people dealt with these problems? I would expect it's something fairly straightforward. Carl Soderstrom. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700