On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 07:01:24PM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 01:18:07PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 05:48:24PM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > Why be imprecise like this? Why not type out the exact error > > message? > > Here is a transcript from the screen of about a half of the lines > displayed (offhand, I do not know how to capture the response and get > it from the other machine to this one): > > > X.Org X Server 1.20.4
OK, my guess was wrong. > ... > Current version of pixman: 0.36.0 > ... > (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" > ... > xinit: giving up > xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused > xinit: server error Based on this, it sounds like the X server is starting and then dying quickly. The next step would be to find its log file -- either ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/Xorg.0.log depending on stuff. The contents of the X log file will hopefully give some clue as to why it's dying. It might also be helpful to show the output of "lspci -nn" and the output of "dmesg | grep -i firmware" (the latter may require root).
