Progress? Still debugging

[Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG]

OK, I changed strategy a little bit. I started working down the startx path.
I moved the .xinitrc to my home and ran
startx from the bash prompt.  It then complained of no .XAuthority file.  I
googled a bit, and found a reference to
an empty file being OK.  So I created one.  This led to some progress, the
window comes up, with the clock even, 
but when I click on anything it bombs back out with a message about fatal IO
error 113.

startxwin.bat is still behaving the same...

Wayne