Reinhard: Thanks for the info. I tried what you have, by my ATI is a Radeon Mobility. I did try one more option and taht was to logon using one of the prompt terminals and issued a "startx". Guess what --- It Worked!!!! I now have a GUI, but whenever I boot my laptop I still get the same problem, the the X with nothing else and then a notice that the X server has crashed. Ed
