On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 12:25 -0500, Robert wrote: > 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. --- IDEA ONLY! Caution! Perhaps the ATIRadeon Kernel Module is not loaded into the kernel? So maybe a modprobe <radeon_module_name>? then startx ATI seems to have a slew of these problems. Alternative: Try another card.. JohnStanley