Cinnamon stops responding after starting from DVD

[LouCypher]

I have this problem both with LMDE and Mint 17 Qiana: starting from boot/installation DVD everything(?) goes fine, until I log in with Cinnamon.
With the standard renderer, the screen simply stays black, with mouse pointer still working; with the software render, everything is painted as expected, but any mouse click or hovering has no effect at all. With Ctrl-Alt-Backspace I can stop X and return to login, but nothing more.
Note that with safe boot mode I succeeded make it work, so to install LMDE system, but after install, running from HDD, I can't run Cinnamon anymore.
From command line I installed Xfce with aptitude, and that works, but Cinnamon doesn't.

The PC is an old laptop, a Toshiba Tecra A4 from 2005, though still has 1.5 GiB of RAM, an AMD X300 card with dedicated RAM, so not really ancient; still could run some useful software, and under Xfce has no problem running latest Firefox on bloated sites.

I just note that on another (newer) laptop of mine, where I installed LMDE/Cinnamon long time ago, and kept it updated, I had some troubles with latest Cinnamon update -- had to reinstall it totally, after last update, to let it work.

All this can definitely be... vague, but are there some common issues on latest Cinnamon?
Any hint?

[PatH57]

Hi,

seems related to the graphic card driver...
Could you provide the info from

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inxi -Fxz

Also a copy of your grub.cfg to see what the default setting is ?

Thanks