Hi,

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
did everything till I got to the activate part. . it then says

xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed

Hmmm.. trying google.
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1043876.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/radeonhd/2008-09/msg00127.html
So, maybe there's a bug with xrandr or the driver for the display. Try refer to output from lspci -k and lsmod to figure out which driver is loaded for the display and whether it's the right one. Let's assume that xrandr is OK for now...