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On 10/17/2009 07:55 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote:

> In my case(asus 900a), whether I use startx at the boot prompt or let
> xdm start by default, the X window starts to open and I see a glimpse
> of the desktop but then the screen goes black and flickers and just
> the outline of the mouse cursor is visible. If I switch to a console
> and try to write a command I have to be fast because log messages are
> being re-directed intermittently from F12 and just pop up on the
> screen.

Are you getting squashfs errors?

Try intercepting the login screen and changing to a different desktop.
In my case with the multilib livecd on two multicore PCs, one Intel, and
one AMD, there seemed to be some interaction between KDE4 and squashfs.
 Gnome, Xfe, and I assume others, work fine.