Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> writes: > Do you see anything interesting in /var/log/syslog? > nothing appears in syslog with the startx command, however everytime I use gdm I get: Nov 20 17:51:54 laptop gdm[4562]: WARNING: Failed to start X server several times in a short time period; disabling display :0 > Is there any difference if you run startx as root? (Normally you should > not do that, of course, but trying it might help to rule out permission > problems.) No real difference, it created a /root/.Xauthority file and said: X:warning process set to priorty -1 instead of requested priority 0 then I got the same errors as in my original post. Thanks all for the help so far btw.. --
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