I'm using xdm and awesome, and I got black screen on eeepc x86. After logging in (without seeing the label for logging in) I entered awesome. Then I could see a couple of icons in notification area, but they were screwed up as well. Everything else is black.
Doesn't happen on my amd64 box. -- http://www.debian.org - The Universal Operating System
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