RE: I always have to log in as root!?
At 06:52 PM 2/17/1999 +0100, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote:
>X has the right permissions. But I thought of something else that might be
>causing the ploblem. To get X11 working (as root), I had to change
>XF86_VGA16 to XF86_S3. The book 'Running Linux' suggested to change the link
>/usr/bin/X11/X to point to XF86_S3. I noticed the file /usr/bin/X11/X wasn't
>a link. So I made a backup of the file and created a new link that pointed
>to XF86_S3. This way I could start X11 (but only as root).
>
>Could this be the problem? The system gives the following error if I try to
>start X when I am not logged in as a root:
Yeah, this threw me my first time around. In Debian, the file that
specifies the server to run is /etc/X11/Xserver. This is not a link, but a
text file, the first line of which specifies the server to run. I would
restore the file you backed up and then take a look at /etc/X11/Xserver.
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