X starts, but when I log in with kdm, it crashes and returns to the login screen. The following backtrace is from kdm.log Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x4a1c58] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x643f9) [0x4643f9] 2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fcb73c72000+0xf410) [0x7fcb73c81410] 3: /lib/libc.so.6 (memcpy+0x15b) [0x7fcb72ebdddb] 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libfb.so (fbBlt+0x100) [0x7fcb70a3cbc0] 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libfb.so (fbBltStip+0x40) [0x7fcb70a3d8f0] 6: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libfb.so (fbGetImage+0x20a) [0x7fcb70a4251a] 7: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so (0x7fcb71062000+0x28fc5) [0x7fcb7108afc5] 8: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x1573c0) [0x5573c0] 9: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so (0x7fcb71ad5000+0x36c5a) [0x7fcb71b0bc5a] 10: /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so (0x7fcb704be000+0x2590a) [0x7fcb704e390a] 11: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so (0x7fcb71ad5000+0x36bf8) [0x7fcb71b0bbf8] 12: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so (0x7fcb71ad5000+0x32d7d) [0x7fcb71b07d7d] 13: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so (0x7fcb71ad5000+0x320e2) [0x7fcb71b070e2] 14: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so (0x7fcb71ad5000+0x367e2) [0x7fcb71b0b7e2] 15: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x30119) [0x430119] 16: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x257da) [0x4257da] 17: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fcb72e5bd2d] 18: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x25379) [0x425379] Segmentation fault at address (nil) Mesa-7.8.2 does not have this problem. emerge --info: Portage 2.2.0_alpha12 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.12.1-r3, 2.6.37-rc8-00025-gd733b68 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.37-rc8-00025-gd733b68-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T9300_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:45:01 +0000 ccache version 3.1.3 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r1, 2.7.1, 3.1.3 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.3-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5, 4.5.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) Repositories: gentoo kde mozilla sunrise java-overlay x11 desktop-effects sage-on-gentoo local-mine ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en he" MAKEOPTS="-j3 -l3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/kde /var/lib/layman/mozilla /var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/java-overlay /var/lib/layman/x11 /var/lib/layman/desktop-effects /var/lib/layman/sage-on-gentoo /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr encode exif fam flac fortran gdbm gdu gif glitz gnutls gpm gtk iconv ieee1394 ipw4965 jpeg kde4 kpathsea lcms ldap libnotify mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nognome nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 readline realmedia samba sdl semantic-desktop session spell sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype type1 udev unicode usb vorbis wmp x264 xcb xcomposite xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en he" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel vesa i915" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
10: /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so (0x7fcb704be000+0x2590a) [0x7fcb704e390a] Something is wrong with your acceleration. Attach dmesg and Xorg.0.log
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Solved: I had a reference to uvesafb in my kernel command line. Removed, and now all works just fine. Old, not working line (from /boot/grub/menu.lst): kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.37-git root=/dev/sda5 video=uvesafb:1680x1050-32,mtrr:3,ywrap New line: kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.37-git root=/dev/sda5