> FWIW the nVidia driver docs indicate that you should > comment, or remove the reference to dri in xorg.conf > # Load "dri" > but that dri2 is fine. Don't know that that has anything to > do with your issue. But thought I'd mention it FWIW. thanks, i missed that part. i took it out of xorg.conf and will see next time i upgrade if it helps.