Password not accepted in X

[jerbear]

Hi all.
I have a laptop that I'm trying to put Red Hat Enterprise 3 on. I managed to get X configured properly (WUXGA screen with nvidia card = a bit of research to get working) and now have the system booting into x windows. Here's the problem: I have no trouble logging in to a non x-based terminal (e.g. tty1, tty2, etc...), but anytime I try to log in to the x terminal it tells me I've entered an incorrect username or password. This happens for both my user account and the root account. I can drop back into a text-based log in (ctrl-alt-f1 for example) and log in just fine, but when I go back to X it refuses me.
When I had it booting into runlevel 3 where I would start x manually (while configuring x properly) I did notice once that it wouldn't let me into one of the control pannels that asks for a root password first. At the time I had assumed I just typed it wrong and I was getting ready to reboot anyway, so I'd go back to that later. Now it appears that x is simply not accepting passwords.
Is it possible I neglected to start a particular service that is needed for this? How can I fix it?

Thanks,
JB

[jerbear]

I figured out the problem, though I'm a bit ashamed to admit what it was! The deal is, the laptop has the wide 16:10 type screen, so I had downloaded an XF86Config file someone else had put together for the laptop. The problem is, this person was apparently from Germany and the keyboard layout was set to "de" instead of "us". Simple problem, major headache!

JB