RE: Xorg issue with 5.0_BETA and nVidia GeForce 2 card

["David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>]

> Hi all,
>
> I've just tried out X.org on 5.0_BETA/i386 for the first time, I  used
> "X -configure" to create a test configuration file, and then ran the X
> server with that file.  The server starts, but then gets stuck at some
> initialization point while the screen is still in that state where it
> has the grey background and the mouse cursor that's an "X".  It never
> gets past that point.  Killing the server leaves the console stuck in
> that state.  (I don't know if this is useful, but the mouse does
> respond while the X server is running.)

The very simple answer to my problem is that for whatever reason,
X -config <config file> doesn't work, it leads to the problem in
question.  But simply running startx with an .xinitrc referencing a
window manager of choice works fine.

Dave