startx results in an error or a black screen

[Justin Mattock]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:
> On 4 Apr 2009, Justin Mattock said:
>
>> Hello, I'm creating an LFS system for the new imac, and am up to the
>> point of compiling the xserver
>> and all of it's libs/proto's. I decided to use git for all of the
>> required dependencies
>> which all compiled fine.
>> The problem is when I "startx" I receive an error
>> from("vesa""vga""nv") something about sig 11
>
> i.e., a segfault.
>
> Got a backtrace?
>
> (Also, what video card? What driver? What version of the X server and
> pixman packages? What's 'the new imac'? More info would be nice.)
>
>> is this possible or is it not possible yet?
>
> It is certainly possible to build a working X server from git: I and
> many other people do it regularly.
>
> I suspect you've got something wrong, but it's hard to say what with
> this info.
>

and almost forgot heres lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Host Bridge (rev b1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 LPC Bridge (rev b2)
00:03.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.2 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP79 SMBus (rev b1)
00:03.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Device 0a98 (rev b1)
00:03.5 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Co-processor (rev b1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev b1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0
Controller (rev b1)
00:06.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev b1)
00:06.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0
Controller (rev b1)
00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev b1)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Bridge (rev b1)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Ethernet (rev b1)
00:0b.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP79 SATA Controller (rev b1)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:16.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 062e (rev a1)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
04:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW643 PCI Express1394b
Controller (PHY/Link) (rev 07)

a whole heck of allot of nvidia's in there!
-- 
Justin P. Mattock