Okay, so I'm booting Mer but I can't seem to get the xserver to work. I have installed the packages from the mer repos for xorg. I tried to setup xorg.conf but I'm guessing I have the wrong settings. All I get when I try to start the xserver is a blinking screen. Incidentally, it also seems to choke on alsa during startup but gets over it well enough to drop me in the terminal. I'll worry about this later... I also occaisionally run into dsp errors on bootup.