Are you really, really sure you did not forget the space after those two
slashes. I use the command almost every day and it works just fine. However,
if if type
startx --:1
^^^-- note, no space after the second slash
I get the same error as you about X already being active for display 0.
The two slashes mean that there are no more arguments to the startx script
and all the following arguments should be passed to the X server. In this
case the X server is started as
X :1
and it starts on VC8.
// Heikki
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