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jason> features, but whenever I tried to run startx after Xorg
-configure had finished
jason> running, the screen would flash then simply go back out to the
console with the

The X server's log (/var/log/X*.log) should tell you what went wrong.  A common
problem is that you are trying to run X without the appropriate permissions.