> (once the gdm had stalled, even startx from a text console did
not
> work).
I did actually have startx work fine for me (as liveuser). It didn't
work for you?
It did not.
Entered 'startx -- :1' at a text console. The system did not bring
up a GUI session for this startx command. After waiting a while, I
did a ctrl-C and looked at /var/log/Xorg.1.log -- saw nothing that
was not normal -- it had come up with all the usual messages, then
had closed when I killed the startx -- but there was no clue for how
come the screen (should have been on ctrl-alt-F8) was not shown.
mikus
p.s. Would no longer be able to reproduce - have moved on to soas70