While I'm running sid instead of trixie everywhere, the versions of relevant packages now in trixie passed through sid and I never observed any problems with this configuration, so my guess is that there's something unusual about your specific hardware causing X not to see your monitor as connected for some reason. More detail would be helpful to track it down.
All my physical systems (half a dozen different devices) boot into a
Linux virtual terminal from where I run `startx` after logging into
a shell prompt. This works fine on all of them, including ones with
fixed panels as well as those with monitors attached via DisplayPort
or HDMI. I don't manually override detection, just rely on the
default configs.
- Bug#1120386: startx error on Trixie Kyrylo Orel
- Bug#1120386: startx error on Trixie Jeremy Stanley
- Bug#1120386: startx error on Trixie Ben Hutchings
- Processed: Re: Bug#1120386: startx error o... Debian Bug Tracking System

