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Here's another experiment: I booted the jaunty alpha-3 CD in text mode, then mounted a disk volume and created a directory to save the resulting xorg.conf and the soon-to-be generated /var/log/Xorg.0.log file in. I opened a second console (ctl-alt-F2) and changed to the new directory in both consoles, logged in as root. I ran the following commands in the 2nd console
sleep 60; cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log . ; sync
then immediately switched to the first console and executed "startx".
after a while, the screen turned all gray, with a tiny round 'wait' cursor appearing near the top of the screen (rotating as normal for such a cursor). After several minutes, there was no further change to the screen, so I shut the system down with the power button.
After restarting the system into one of the working Linux versions on the system, I found a generic xorg.conf file (which I manually saved on the hard disk before I did the above steps) and the Xorg.0.log file which was saved after the startx command.
The xorg.conf file contains the following "Device" section
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
and I am attaching the log file.