[Sussex] Re: Sussex Digest, Vol 18, Issue 2

[John Crowhurst]

> Hi, after using it for a while, it has crashed a few more times,
> although the crashes seem to be slightly different; the cursor goes to
> the top left of the screen and some of the graphics are garbled. That
> might mean something to you, I don't know :). The crashes are bareable
> but after hearing how stable linux is, it is slightly disappointing,
> that it crashes for no particular reason. I'm sure it's just something
> I've done wrong though (I normally do!).
>
> Sam.

Try diverting the output of startx to a file:

startx 1>/tmp/X.out 2>/tmp/X.err

When X crashes, you'll have a diagnostic report on what the X server has
done and what happened to cause the crash.

--
John