Kamagurka wrote: > this problem has me going nuts and effectively stops me from using linux > for 2 weeks now, so any help would be appreciated. > upon starting X with the command startx the screen goes black, then the > Nvidia splash shows up for half a second, and then i'm back at the > prompt with the following output: You may have better results going to a nvidia support forum for help with their binary driver. Does it work the open source XFree86 'nv' driver? (You will need to disable the nvidia 'glx' extension). If do not need fast OpenGL (i.e. don't play games) this should work well enough for you. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86