Hi Mike! > > When I try to do 'startx', a couple of full screens worth of messages flow > past too fast to read before the screen goes blank, then the background of > the Debian logo appears, I get what looks to be an icon in the upper left > corner of the screen that is labeled 'main', three icons in the upper right > corner aligned vertically, then nothing else happens and the computer fails > to respond to any mouse or keyboard actions short of the three finger > reboot.
Sorry I missed your first mails, but did you configure mouse and keyboard on console properly? > > Is there a log of the start of 'startx'? startx 1>&2 2>x.log writes the xserver-output in file x.log (of your actual directory), wherefrom you can read (or whatelse) it comfortably. -- M.f.G. Georg Koss mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]