Martin Marques wrote: >>> Any clues? >> >> Maybe following the procedures in this link will help? >> >> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriTroubleshooting > > Ed, this doesn't help me as X comes up OK, but after a logout out it > tries to start in a different manner, and then is when it fails. OK... Maybe you can see if things change if you disable loading of the DRI module in your xorg.conf file?