Comment # 28 on bug 1004453 from Stefan Dirsch

(In reply to Felix Miata from comment #26)
> (In reply to Stefan Dirsch from comment #25)
> > Xorg -retro -logverbose 9 :99
> > kill it with Ctrl-Alt-BS (press BS twice shortly afterwards)
> > --> /var/log/Xorg.99.log
> 
> Is that supposed to be done via remote login? Booted to graphical.target
> with vga=791 on cmdline, there is only black screen and no keyboard
> response. I tried Xorg -retro -logverbose 9 :99 from remote anyway, but
> without killing this DE session with Ctrl-Alt-BS. Xorg.99.log after reset
> button reboot was only 2964 bytes, and Xorg.0.log 2963.
> 
> Booted without vga=791 to multi-user.target, and logged in, Xorg -retro
> -logverbose 9 :99 simply displayed on the screen content like these short
> Xorg.#.logs, and Ctrl-Alt-BS only produces ^[^H^[^H, and a new Xorg.99.log
> of only 2947 bytes.

Yes, doing it remotely is absolutely fine. No idea, why X logfiles get
truncated. I need to give up at this point. Sorry.