Paul, you must make sure that X is not running on an other console if you
want to use startx.
the suggestion to run startx is very reasonable: this way you
will see where it stops. if you don't manage to stop gdm/kdm/xdm, you can
do two things I believe:
switch to an other runlevel (you do this by logging in as root and
giving the command 'init <runlevel>'). on my system runlevel 2 does not
contain X. once I've entered runlevel 2 I only see the text consoles and
I can give startx.
an other thing you could do is looking into your /var/log files.
try asking this:
ls -lrt /var/log/X*log
the last line is also the newest file. probably you can find some
useful info inside it.
ciao,
Mario
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