anywhere else I should >> be looking? > >The permissions of the binary itself are fine? > > They should be; I checked them against my (working) x86 box at home last night and I haven't changed anything that I can remember. /usr/bin/X11/X -rwsr-sr-x root.root /usr/bin/X11/XF86_FBDev -rwxr-xr-x root.root /usr/bin/X11/xinit -rwxr-xr-x root.root This is getting quite frustrating as you can imagine, but I must be almost there! cheers, Mark.