One last note on this: on i386, reverting from xserver-xorg-core 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-11 to xserver-xorg-core 2:1.1.1-21 makes the problem go away (using the same version of xserver-xorg-video-vesa I mentioned before). -- Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605 Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002 New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer