[tlug] My thanks go to

[David Bernat <dbernat@example.com>]

Godwin Stewart
Mattia Dongili
Keith Bawden
Jim
tlug@example.com
Curt Sampson
Josh Glover
Stephen Turnbull

I have a laptop that works in both console mode and GUI mode.

xorg-conf was the problem. Swapping the default Device section
for the video card to the device section suggested by Travis
and reducing the default depth to 16 stopped the crashes.