X not starting - radeon 8500

[Birju]

I'm having trouble getting X to work. I've emerged Xfree86, and the ati-drivers, and followed the directions in the gentoo handbook concerning the desktop environments. I used fglrxconfig to configure my XF86config script (I also used xf86config in earlier attempts, they failed).

Here is the problem; when I type startx, the screen goes black. That's it. I can't even stop X by using ctrl-alt-backspace. I can get back to a VC by using ctrl-alt-FNx.

I even tried loading the basic vga drivers at low resolution and I get the same black screen.

I am using a radeon 8500 LE w/ 128 MB of RAM
I've used the kernel settings listed and instructions listed here:
http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html

I've posted my XF86config-4 file, dmesg, and XFree86.log at:
http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~patelb/

I've run other linux distros on the same machine with no problems with the flgrx drivers. I don't know what could be wrong.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Wedge_]

Umm, I think your problem may be down to the security options you appear to have enabled in the kernel, judging by your dmesg output:

[Birju]

Thanks, I'll look into setting up grsecurity properly.