You said radeon right? I don't have that but here's some tips./usr/X11R7/bin/Xorg (that's the name of your "real X server") automatically makes a config (example /etc/X11/Xorg-config-4).
What you want is to run Xorg with option to save the config. Editing that config you'll see mouse, keyboard, video card, fonts, etc that X will try to use upon startup. You have to tell Xorg to use the config on startup (because it will try to do it automatic as usual).
You'd like to look at someone else's config. You might see 1) your loading modules you might not need 2) your loading modules you don't have 3) how to run in a more basic / stable mode until you get things figured out.
You'll have to ask someone else how exactly not to load 3D because I don't use Xorg and I don't have a radeon chipset video card.
You might also try: xserver-xorg-video-radeon. And there's also the Debian Alioth website if you haven't found it yet.
hammered hammered wrote:
>one more thing to try is startup without 3D support (agp / vga only) How do I do that?