> How are you defining "server"? What makes you say that a server is > fine but a desktop isn't? I usually find server/desktop distinctions > to be somewhat artificial, so such statements are worrying to me. I have a Radeon VE and X crashes with and without DRI. I require X for my desktop functionality, so something, somewhere, is broken. :) At some point I'm supposed to set up a remote ssh session and gdb the Xserver, but I haven't had time to do that either. (Buying a house has been very time-consuming of late). > At the moment, I'd settle for a semi-stable pure i386 Debian system with > a 64-bit kernel. Me too, but I can't get work done w/o X. > > > I'm still getting, among other things, 'INIT: error reading initrequest' > > > errors on the console, from just about every /etc/init.d/* script. > > > > me too. I never figured that one out. > > But it never caused a problem for you? Other than filling up the syslogs, not that I could tell. I figured it was some sort of ioctl() issue, but really I've no clue.
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