> I have a love/hate relationship with X.
> I know little of it's config, and struggle against
> it to know as little as possible about it.  :-)
> Currently I'm trying to figure out how to
> turn off the verbosity of my X.  I recently
> had a problem where /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> had, over time, chewed up all of my 1+ gig of
> free space on / (I rarely log off).

strange. my logs are few kB every X start.

> This display log contains a huge number of entries
> like "minl(40)", etc.  If it's desperately trying
> to tell me something sane that I should be paying
> attention to, it's failing miserably at it.

looks like debugging is on.