"Ali Helmy" <alihelmy at gmail.com> writes: > I forgot to mention too, that when starting as runlevel3, i have no services > running... and before i try and [startx], i start [syslog - messagebus - > acpid - apmd - iptables - network] > > So are there other essential services that maybe causing the problem? Have you tried starting hald? Regards Ingemar