> > You can get some diagnostics on what's happening with startx as follows: > > $ startx >X.out 2>X.err > > Any console output generated by startx will go to X.out and any error > messages will go to X.err. If it still hangs you can reboot and look in > those files for any clues as to what's going wrong. > > Paul. Done that - managed to read them with vi (that was a bit of a challenge for me) X.out had setup info and then no warnings or anything, X.err was empty. So, what's next? hmm Duncan