2009/10/16 David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thursday 15 October 2009 06:06:15 pm David C. Rankin [...] >> Maybe a brake-through I managed to get a strace of startx. While the strace >> was running, I had a sustained X session with a small xterm in the top-left >> corner of the display. I couldn't do anything with it and X crashed at the >> end of the strace session, but hopefully the information I captured will >> let a archlinux X guru solve the riddle. The strace output is here: >> >> http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/strace-startx.t >> xt Though i'm far from being any guru , i did notice the following lines: 472 (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) 476 FATAL: Module fbcon not found. 477 Setting master 478 record: RECORD extension enabled at configure time. 479 record: This extension is known to be broken, disabling extension now.. 480 record: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20500 481 482 waiting for X server to shut down Dropping master (the numbers are the linenumbers). Could it be that it's just trying to load the wrong video driver? mvg, Guus
