Steam crashes upon opening, after verifying the installation and before opening the main interface, with something about the OpenGL context not supporting direct rendering. Soon afterwards, the X server crashes. (I'm not crashing my computer again just to find the exact error message, thank… »

Open /etc/hosts on the host computer in the text editor of your choice.
On the line that resembles:

127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain   localhost

add the name of your computer (found in /etc/hostname). For example:… »

if [ ! -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf ]; then
        sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.fglrx /etc/X11/xorg.conf
fi
startx /usr/bin/openbox-session -- :1

How simple was that? And my script for starting X on my integrated card is about the same (only using XFCE,… »