Hey, I have this problem since a while but it got a lot worse with the last two kernel versions. Now there's an about 50/50 chance to see the user login or simply not see it. I don't have any login manager set up, so after boot there's simply the user login and after that I issue startx. It all works just fine,even if I can't see a thing, and once I issued startx everything goes back to normal, the screen isn't blank anymore. The machine has an Intel chipset, and I guess it's related to that and/or KMS, but that's as far as my guess goes. Maybe one of you knows something about that kind of issue? -- Regards, Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan