"White John (RQ6) RLBUHT" <John.White@rlbuht.nhs.uk> writes: > Problem was logging out of my KDE session - no X login prompt - > black screen. All other consoles were working and I could log in and > 'startx' but not 'startkde'. According to processes - no X was > working. Tried with Gnome login - same problem Look in /var/log for the xfree86 and xdm (/gdm/kdm?) logs for relevant messages. (On old Suns, you may be better off with XFCE than Gnome/KDE.)