Re: Sparc SLC success story and an X11 question
I have the same problem. I thought that it might be the permissions on
special device files for the mouse and keyboard, but that didn't fix it.
On 29 Jul 1998, Petteri Kangaslampi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> First of all, thanks to everybody who has been working on Sparc
> Debian so far. We installed Debian on a SparcStation SLC last
> weekend, and it's been running since without any major
> problems. The installation went smoothly, apart from having to
> go a bit out of order to be able to read base from an
> NFS-mount. We are still running the standard 2.0.33 kernel as I
> don't even want to think how long compiling a kernel on this
> machine would take...
>
> Anyway, the problem: I downloaded the X11 packages from
> ftp.netg.se, and they are working fine, but only as root. If I
> try to run it as a normal user, the X server complains:
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
> Has anybody run into similar problems, and if so, found a
> solution? /usr/X11R6/bin/X is setuid root and I have allowed
> "Anyone" to run the X server from /etc/X11/Xserver. I downloaded
> the uploaded packages today, but they have the same problem.
>
> I'll continue hunting for the problem myself, but I thought I'd
> just bring up it here as well, as someone might have a solution.
>
>
> Petteri
>
>
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