then edited /etc/X11/Xwrapper.conf and added needs_root_rights=yes to it. this was after installing xserver-xorg-legacy. finally xinit works!
so far this kernel and operating system are much faster: faster boot, faster shutdown, faster fsck. but I've probably still got a lot of work to do to get back all the functionality I had before the upgrade.
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