hi list i have (unfortunately) a ATI RADEON X700 PCIe, i installed the drivers with apt-get, when i ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg i kept pressing enter because everything looked fine. here are the steps i took: 1) Select the desired X server driver => ati 2) Enter an identifier for your video card => ATI Technologies Inc. Radeon X700 (RV401) 3) Please enter the video card's bus identifier => PCI:5:0:0 l left it as this value but when i run lspci it gives me 0000:05:0.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5e4d 0000:05:0.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5e6d is this normal. i thought the driver would have made the description better. is my driver installed properly? 4) Enter the amount of memory (in KB) to be used by your video card => i just left it blank & pressed <enter> 5) Use kernel frame buffer device interface => NO 6) Auto detect keyboard layout => YES 7) Please select your keyboard layout => us 8) Please select the XKB rule set to use => xorg 9) Please configure your keyboard model => pc104 10) Please select your keyboard layout => i just left it blank & pressed <enter> 11) Please select your keyboard options => i just left it blank & pressed <enter> 12) Emulate 3 button mouse => YES 13) Enable scroll events from mouse wheel => YES 14) Select the X.Org server modules that should be loaded by default => i selected everything [*] GLcore [*] bitmap [*] dbe [*] ddc [*] dri [*] extmod [*] freetype [*] glx [*] int10 [*] record [*] type1 [*] v4l [*] vbe I'm sure that's OK 15) Write default files section to configuration file? => YES 16) Write default DRI section to configuration file? => YES 17) Attempt monitor auto detection => YES 18) Enter an Identifier for your monitor => i left it as Generic Monitor i have a BenQ FP731 17" LCD monitor thou 19) Select the video models you would like the X server to use => [*] 1021x768 [*] 800x600 [*] 640x480 i just used those to be safe, non of the other modes looks standard 20a) Please chose a method for selecting your monitor characteristics => SIMPLE i wanted me do go for advanced which i did later 21) Please chose your approximate monitor size => 17 inches (430mm) 22) Write monitor sync ranges to configuration file => YES 23) Please select your desired default color depth in bits => 24 that didn't work when i wanted to start X the monitor displayed "out of range" message , so i followed the exact same steps but chose advanced for step 20 20b) => ADVANCED 24) Enter your monitor horizontal sync range => 28-51 i had no idea what to put here so i left it. is there a way to check what the optimal values should be here? 25) Enter your monitor vertical refresh range => 43-85 it had a default setting of 43-60 but i know my monitor & card can handle 70,72,75 and maybe 80,85 @ lower refresh rates then if did the rest as in steps 22 & 23 but this also didn't work can anyone point me out were I'm going wrong? thanks