For some time already, it has been believed that Xorg doesn't work on hurd-i386 any more, and I had mentioned several times that it just seemed to be a problem between clients and the server. I've just tested it again, without any xorg.conf, using just qemu 0.12.3+dfsg-2,
startx -- -ac just works fine. Without -ac, the server requests authentification, which seems to have been broken by upstream at some point, and thus the server doesn't get any request to draw anything from clients, and thus doesn't draw anything and remains black. To get convinced, try startx -- -retro And you'll get the retry-style grey background and a cursor to move (but no client drawings). Samuel
