Please correct me if this is not the right place for this issue. I am a Feisty Ubuntu user and a while ago I changed from fglrx to ati drivers with no problems (Intel 3 GHz box, LG widescreen LCD with an ATI Radeon 9600 card). The ati driver seemed much better. Then one day, I got the black screen of death instead of a login window for Gnome. No key combos would bring me out of the black screen and back to the console. Instead I rebooted to console and ran dpkg-reconfigure. I am able to get VESA working with no problem and if I reinstall fglrx, it will work fine but for the life of me, I can't get the ati driver to work again. It makes no difference if I am starting xserver from console or from a clean boot, it gets hung up at the same point - just when you would expect the login screen to pop up. Looking for some things to try. Any help appreciated. I am not a linux expert - just somebody trying to optimize my machine. Thanks, Darren