Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> In article <E0xiIuj-00013M-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk> prlw1@cam.ac.uk (Patrick Welche) writes:
> >Has anyone got an idea on what I should try next?
> 
> ktrace the Xserver directly and see why it fails to open the display.

Good plan:

It gets as far as reading in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt, and then

        144 238 144             light green
        144 238 144             LightGreen
       "
  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre RET   read 991/0x3df
  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre CALL  break(0x23b000)
  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre RET   break 0
  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre CALL  read(0x4,0x21d000,0x2000)
  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre GIO   fd 4 read 0 bytes
       "" 
  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre RET   read 0
  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre CALL  close(0x4)
  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre RET   close 0
  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre PSIG  SIGBUS SIG_DFL
  2595 XSuSE_NVidia_Fre NAMI  "XSuSE_NVidia_Fre.core"