Ok, some progress: The second problem was entirely a false alarm - somehow when I was testing whether it was my .xinitrc, I only copied (rather than moved) my .xinitrc to not be parsed... the reason X was crashing as me was because the window manager is crashing (and that has to do with fonts and themes, which I mostly expected anyway).
And so I now have: - X still locks up switching to TTYs. - This happens regardless of whether I'm running X as root. - 'startx ; init 3' doesn't work (it makes no difference). - Xorg.0.log shows nothing, and neither does the STDOUT (as seen by 'startx &> startx.log' - looking at it in X and after a reboot shows it to end at the same place). I notice though that the logs are saying they 'failed to load module i915'... something in me thinks, somehow, that this is important. I will try recompiling X tonight with that as the XF86CardDrivers in host.def, and see if that makes any difference. -- Lennon Victor Cook -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
