Perhaps I'm missing something here, but I receintly upgraded my verison of XFree86 to ver: 4.01-1 following the install file to the letter.

On rebooting and reconfiguring my XF86Config file, I find that when I start X I get a black and White screen, poor resolution and certainly nothing like what I am used to. It matters not whether I select Gnome or KDE at the graphical login, the result is the same, some form of failsafe mode.

All help would most definately be appreciated, as I don't want to do a new installation.

I'm running RH7 if it matters...

Thanks in advance!

Did you check the Xfree86 Website for Video Card Support?

No change in hardware from the previous version of XFree86

Tried running XFree86 -configure?

Since you upgraded to a rather old version
of X 4, I'll assume you had 3.3x before that.
the 4-series (specially in a install where old
3 files exist) looks for a XF86Config-4 file
rather than picking up the older versions one.

Cheers,
Tink

Done that

X does start, but it would seem to be in some form of safe mode, not gnome or KDE.

Seemed to be getting somewhere.

I have managed to get it to boot inot graphical mode, runlevel 5, then after logging in, I get to gnome or KDE, rather than that "safe" mode.

However, when I am now presented with the graphical login screen, it is in black and white or monochrome and there is a console open, with the following text:
Console log for SERVERNAME

Any ideas? This was not they way it used to be...