This machine is running CentOS 5.3, fully updated Linux mavis.localdomain 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 09:19:18 EDT 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux. Video is an ATI Radeon 9000. X froze overnight and attempts to restart it fail. I tried an old kernel (2.6.18-92.1.22.el5) before realizing that root can start X and a virgin user can start X. I still can't use my original user name. I'm sure the last line of this is telling me something that I'm missing.
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONDRIStop (**) RADEON(0): EngineRestore (16/16) (**) RADEON(0): RADEONDisplayPowerManagementSet(0,0x0) (**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestore (**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMode() (**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMode(0x9d2831c) (**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMemMapRegisters() : (**) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION : 0x1fff0000 (**) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION : 0x27ff2000 (**) RADEON(0): Map Changed ! Applying ... (**) RADEON(0): Map applied, resetting engine ... (**) RADEON(0): Updating display base addresses... (**) RADEON(0): Memory map updated. (**) RADEON(0): Programming CRTC1, offset: 0x00000000 (**) RADEON(0): Wrote: 0x0000000c 0x00030065 0x00000000 (0x0000a400) (**) RADEON(0): Wrote: rd=12, fd=101, pd=3 (**) RADEON(0): Disposing accel... (**) RADEON(0): Disposing cusor info (**) RADEON(0): Disposing DGA (**) RADEON(0): Unmapping memory (**) RADEON(0): RADEONDRICloseScreen FreeFontPath: FPE "unix/:7100" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.
If it matters I normally boot into run level 3, log in and issue "startx" from the BASH prompt.
Any ideas welcome.