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[danstowell <danstowell+launch@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wait, I have done some testing last night and now I think it is NOT
caused by the xorg.conf, but by the virtualbox stuff.

* I made a usb with the xorg.conf removed and the virtualbox-ose-
guest-x11 removed, and it booted OK on my Eee.

* I made a usb with the xorg.conf removed and the virtualbox-ose-
guest-x11 present, and it caused the same crashloop on my Eee.

Can someone else please test and confirm this? It takes a while for me
to test things and I only have one machine to test on. If this turns out
to be the general case then it would suggest that virtualbox-ose-
guest-x11 should be removed, I guess. I don't know anything about
virtualbox so I can't say whether it might be a known issue or
workaroundable or whatever. But if someone (especially Rob with Eee; or
someone else with a different machine) can test a version with xorg.conf
removed and virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 present, and replicate the
phenomenon (gdm repeatedly launching a crashing x, just after the
message "VirtualBox Additions disabled, not in a Virtual Machine") that
would help greatly.

I was chatting to some xorg people and their recommendation was to
customise the arguments to the x server rather than providing an
xorg.conf (esp since the latter will only apply to the first display).
I'm going to try that out later. Not sure if purely using xfce4-power-
manager will do all we need but yes let's try that too.

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xorg.conf and virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 conflict
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490067
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Status in Puredyne liveCD/DVD/USB/HD: Confirmed

Bug description:
Seems like the barebones /etc/X11/xorg.conf which I added, and virtualbox-ose-guest-x11, may conflict. Having them both causes a x11+gdm crash loop when booting a live-USB on my Eee 701, the last message showing being "VirtualBox Additions disabled, not in a Virtual Machine".

IIRC, it was the xorg.conf which caused problems in aymeric's virtualbox and led to the addition of virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 in the first place. So maybe it's just a rubbish xorg.conf :(