Blank screen on starting X

[Tiago Vignatti]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 04:24:15PM +0200, ext Flittigs at PICT wrote:
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> Hello all, we are undergrad students trying to install and compile the latest X release on a virtual box. We did all installation on /opt/MPX prefix.
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> on doing "sudo /opt/MPX/bin/X -config /../xorg.conf" , the X server starts running and screen goes blank. We also changed the startx script to accomodate the new path for X. Can anyone help on this? thanks
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just in case: adding -retro on the arguments does the job? :)

            Tiago