I don't consider myself a noob with linux nor do I have delusions of knowing everything or anything for that matter. Here's my problem.

I've recently installed fluxbox on my slackware box and things were going great. The first time I restarted was today after the box locked up for some reason while I was closing Eterm. (Many things have been changed during this session so trying to narrow down the change could prove to be quite difficult.)

So I restarted and I try to open X.

It changes resolutions, the nvidia splash screen comes up, and then it just closes. No errors to std*, no errors in XFree86.0.log. Nothing seems to be wrong, but it closes right after changing resolutions.

I thought it might have something to do with fluxbox, so i changed the xinit script over to load kde instead. No change.

Okay, might be the nvidia drivers. I change it to use vesa and change the modes. Same thing.

The last line in XFree86.0.log is

(II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDateReporting: succeeded.

Anyone have any ideas?

Specs for the box.

Fairly customized Slackware 9
XFree86 4.2.0
NVIDIA 1.0-4496

Not sure what other info might be relevant.

well since you are not a noob in linux ,you could have tried something else too,like checking the modules of nvidia(anyway you said that it seems not to be problem)
and instead of startx ,
trying
X only
try
X -probeonly 2>somefile
and check the stderr ,at least there should be something
also check the logs
and finally did you tried
/proc/dri
(if you have enabled dri)

forgot to mention lsmod shows the nvidia module open but it does the same thing with vesa.

that works.....

nothing in the logs or temp

Thats what I meant my std*(stdout, stderr), It shows no errors.

Thought I said I did that....

dri is disabled

well X works that definately means that the problem is xinit or fluxbox,
that's the reason no stderr is coming up,since X reports only when it could not open the X-windows,
i don't know anything about fluxbox,have you tried with other wm

i switched it back to kde(the original) and it did the same. atleast you've helped me narrow it down. I can investigate from here.