On Wednesday 20 August 2008 07:18:55 forgottenwizard wrote: > I'm having a problem getting X to work. It is seg faulting on me, and > despite countless revdep-rebuilds and emerge -e world, it still doesn't > work. > > It dies after the cursor shows up, spitting this backtrace and output. > Sorry if the formatting sucks. The last line is probably refering to the > fact I tried to run it from within screen, so if that could cause a > problem say so, and tell me how the heck to get a log of this output > (since startx > log.txt doesn't work) > > #--- startx output ---#
[snip] > (WW) NVIDIA: No matching Device section > for instance (BusID PCI:0:1:3) found Try setting BusID explicitly in xorg.conf. Failing that, try run startx from outside screen. I don't think it'll make a difference, but do it anyway to get a data point. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

