I have a usb logitech mouse and I took out USB HID devices when I compiled the kernel thinking that a usb mouse would be part of the usb drivers, not the HID devices. My mistake. However, this causes: Backtrace: 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80d2c84] 1: [0xb7f05400] 2: X(main+0x6ad) [0x80750cd] 3: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7c7760c] 4: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1ed( [0x80741d1] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting With for instance /dev/input/mice Protocol "auto", i.e., if you don't specify a mouse or if you do in different ways or with Driver "evdev" or "mouse". It should at worst start X with a non-working mouse or exit with an error when it doesn't find that USB HID in the kernel, not what I assume is a segmentation fault. Note that I did recompile kernel with the USB HID and it now starts without crashing.
Please tell us which version of x11-base/xorg-server you are using. Also post your "emerge --info" and attach your kernel config file. Reopen this bug when you provide the requested information.
Created attachment 185827 [details] emerge --info xorg-server kernel .config
