Edgar, so you've got a real puzzle on your hands.  Clearly there's
something different between your left-hand system and right-hand system.
;-)  One line of attack would be to very carefully and in exquisite
detail find out what IS different between them, from H/W & BIOS on up.

I think a profitable second would be to see if any errors are being
reported to the console.  For that I'd change /etc/inittab default to 3,
then startkde (or whatever they call it these days) with stdout & stderr
redirected to files for postmortem examination.  (When starting X from
the console like that, which I always do, you may not have everything
visible on-screen when it terminates.)  That should, but might not be so
easy.  You may need examine some of the scripts and redirect their
stderr as well.
-- 
Paul Rogers
[email protected]
Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates."
(I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL
:-)

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