Dave Walker wrote:
In summary, my problem was that X would load but the mouse would be frozen on the screen. Bingo, Andrew - your suggestion that there might be interference by another utility (maybe gpm) causing the problem proved to be the case..... I issued the command: killall gpm and then : startx and I now have a working gnome desktop.
You can keep gpm if you want by telling it to repeat data as ms3 and then configure the mouse in X to be on /dev/gpmdata.
-- Kent