On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 20:12:08 +0200, Ronald van der Pol wrote:

> I get the X11 background and a cursor. But also horizontal lines/
> disturbances. The background covers all of the screen (not only
> part on it). The cursor does not move. With ps(1) I do not see
> the Xserver running. I think it exited, but none of the logs show
> any evidence of that.

Some programs cause the Xserver to crash, e.g.:
$ xrdb -merge .Xresources  
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
$

I don't know why yet.

	rvdp