X starts okay but doesn't exit well

After doing some updates this morning, I have a problem with leaving x.  When I log out of openbox, I just get gobbledigook on the screen.  actually if I type startx x starts again so the console is there I just can't see it.  I can also logout (of my user account), log in as root and reboot or shutdown but I can't see any of it.  Just some dots on the screen similar to braile.
the problem occurred when xmonad and haskell-x11 were updated. 
I have been using no xorg.conf and
$ lspci | grep "VGA"
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600]
Does anyone know of a fix?  Thanks

Not sure if that helps but I had also problems similar to yours. While my graphics card is much older than yours (Mobility Radeon 7000), my problems started with kernel 2.6.31 and KMS. I had to completely disable KMS using the nomodeset switch in grub. Only then my went back to the old functionality.

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