Re: how to get a clean xserver-xorg installation?

[steef <steefvanduin@zonnet.nl>]

Christof Hurschler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble getting my xserver to run on an unstable machine which I
> just upgraded.  kdm runs, pauses on login and returns without entering any
> desktop (KDE or otherwise).  I am getting an error:
>
> error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
>
> which after some Googeling seems not to be the problem (or is it?).
>
> I've used dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to try to get it running to no
> avial, and I suspect there is some config file mixup. How can I get a really
> clean xorg setup?  apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg doesn't seem to do
> the trick, I still get old config file warnings etc.
>
> It worked before the dist-upgrade, has a (lspci) Radeon 9200 PRO, dpkg
> showed a drm error ("without lock") until I turned off dri in
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thaks,
>
> Chris
>
>  
had the same troubles playing around with on sid, some time ago. 
de-installed kdm, and used startx. that did the trick for me on my 
machine. yet: on unpredictable moments  my machine hung, booting up. 
dmesg | less did not give any clue. neither did /etc/X11/& &. i consider 
it just of one of those things of *fine* software under development.

steef