Hello,This is not so helpful, but my Netwinder ran fbdev X out of the box with 4.0.2-13 and the config generated by debconf. With the same config, 4.0.3 failed, in the same way as you're describing. So I think 4.0.3 is just broken on ARM. :-(
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