G4, ATI 128, X Serve Problems

[Longman, Bill]

> 2. You could also try sending the output of startx to a file, 
> e.g. "startx 
> > somepathorother/startxmessages" and then paste 
> startxmessages to this 
> list to see if anybody can make sense of it (if it's not too 
> long).  That 
> might be a good bet in the first instance.

Usually there's a log file for the X server startup as well. Look in
/var/log/XFree86.Z.log where Z is the display number, (usually 0).

The old "15 bits is better than 16" trick seems to have worked for most
folks.