On 2011-01-20 18:39 +0100, Richard Lawrence wrote: > Thanks for any advice you can offer. I feel pretty clueless about > X-related stuff. The Intel driver in Squeeze requires Kernel Modesetting (KMS)¹, if X uses the Vesa driver instead that means KMS is not active, for whatever reason. What are the contents of /proc/fb (if any) and the output of "/sbin/lsmod | grep i915" ? Sven ¹ http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting