You can get some diagnostics on what's happening with startx as follows:
$ startx >X.out 2>X.err
Any console output generated by startx will go to X.out and any error
messages will go to X.err. If it still hangs you can reboot and look in
those files for any clues as to what's going wrong.
Paul.
Thanks, but how will I find those files afterwards? I'm not too hot on
command
line - I can navigate but don't know how to search for a file... can you help
with that?
Duncan
(I'm not going to try Knoppix with 64kb RAM!)