Re: Sparc SLC success story and an X11 question
>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.
The user that runs the Xserver needs read and write permissions
on /dev/kbd, /dev/mouse and /dev/fb0 (and /dev/fb[123] for multihead
machines). I thought that the X-server wrapper (which runs the X-server
as root) would have fixed that, but apparently not.
Regards
/Anders
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