On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Vincent wrote:
> However, when I "startx", the screen blanks out and nothing happens. Just a 
> black uniform screen. The system is not hanging, I can still exit by 
> CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE and reboot, so this is no kernel panic or whatever, just 
> maybe a problem with the colormap????

If you start Xorg with 'startx -- -logverbose 4', do you see any 
additional information in Xorg.0.log?

Cheers,
Jared