Re: X server will not start up after driver "upgrade" - 'fixed'

[Brandon Kuczenski <brandon@301south.net>]

I 'solved' this problem, as some other readers suggested, by nuking my 
config files.  It turned out to be something in ~/.gnome2 -- I moved all 
my files to a temp directory and logged in with an empty home directory, 
and then restored .gnome* and .gconf* directories one by one until login 
failed (it was a PITA because each time requires waiting for the X server 
to crash and for gdm to respawn... hmm, I suppose I could have automated 
it...)

Though I don't really consider this to be resolved, I really am sick of 
the problem.  Perhaps when I have regained some fortitude i might take 
another crack, probably starting with that segfault reported by KDE.  (I 
don't understand how something in ~/.gnome2 could affect the KDE startup 
process).  But at least I have my computer back.

Thanks for reading, everybody.

-Brandon