Oh, ok ... yeah, I read it wrong .... your problem might have something to do with the fact that the 'nv' driver crashing X out. Ctrl+Atl+F1 and login..... then do: sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list uncomment (remove the '#' at the beginning of the line) for all lines that say "universe" at the end of them and save (ctrl+o) then exit(ctrl+x) now do: sudo aptitude update then: sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx now: sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change <ul><li style="list-style-type: none;"><pre>Section "Device" Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV10DDR [GeForce 256 DDR]" Driver "nv" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection </pre> </li></ul> to <ul><li style="list-style-type: none;"><pre>Section "Device" Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV10DDR [GeForce 256 DDR]" Driver "nvidia" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection </pre> </li></ul> save (ctrl+o) and exti (ctrl+x) then do CTRL+ALT+F7 and CTRL+ALT+Backspace (which will force kill X and restart it, you should get the gdm login screen Hope this helps. -Adam <div> On 1/31/07, bassix <<a href="mailto:bassix@gmail.com">bassix@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> No it is not a 64-bit CPU. It is an AMD Athlon 2500+ (32-bit). I was hoping it was a "common" issue for which someone would know an easy work-around or fix... I've got 512MB of RAM as well... the video card is an 8x AGP (MSI with NVidia chipset) with 128MB RAM. -Steve. -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- -=:Max:=- --OpenPGP key: 5DBFA065--