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Re: /dev/mouse not found?



On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Joshua Uziel wrote:

> Also, I wasn't able to run X as a non-root users until I ran
> "chmod 666 /dev/fb?" as root as well, and you may have to do
> the same.  Took me a while to figure this one out, along
> with the fact that strace would segfault when I'd try to run
> "strace startx" either as myself or root.

That's interesting, given that /dev/fb* were all mode 664 root/root for me
already.  Is your /usr/X11R6/bin/X setuid root?  (Not the X server itself,
but the wrapper therefor.)

I use xdm instead of startx, though.

--Jeff


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