All, I get the same error as the original submitter with the following caveats: 1) I'm running AMD64 instead of i386. 2) I don't get any screen flickering or performance degredation. I just get the error on my screen when I shut down GDM. 3) I use GDM rather than XDM. This is current as of kernel version 2.6.32-11. Thanks, Nathan A. Stine