On Nov 15, Peter Seebach wrote
> Where does XF86 write errors?
> 
> If I ktrace X, I get a log file showing lots of very informative error
> messages written to stderr.
> 
> I don't see any of them anywhere.
> 
> ('ktrace X'.  No xinit or anything.  ARGH.)
> 
> Are there special options (other than XSERVER) you need to have an X server
> run?

A regular startx doesn't show them, but a 'startx >& /tmp/x_log' will
produce a much more verbose output.
X seems to do some magic to detect wether stderr is a tty or a regular file ...

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