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Re: User not authorized to run the X server?



On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 04:36:05PM +0100, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
> On my quest to get a working X, I've encountered yet another
> problem: doing startx as a normal user gives me the error message
> mentioned in the subject.
> Since my system always crashed hard before doing startx, I'm reluctant to
> try it out as root ;-)
> What did I overlook this time?
What does the second line in /etc/X11/Xserver say?
It "should" say Console
There are also the options Anybody and RootOnly.

/Peter Toneby
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