On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote: > I think both startx and xserverrc should do the trick. Tried passing -config over startx and it didn't work. Now I'm a little confused between /usr/bin/Xorg and /usr/bin/X11/X. Shouldn't they be the same? > These manpages are too easy to find, the one you want to look at is Xorg :) Xorg -logfile /home/webc/X.log -config xorg.webc.conf :1 b0rks with: xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted) same with startx inspired xinit: xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /usr/bin/Xorg -logfile /home/webc/justX.log :1 -auth /tmp/serverauth.CBjhw27703 juggling args here: xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /usr/bin/Xorg :1 -config xorg.webc.conf -logfile /home/webc/justXorg.log -auth /tmp/serverauth.CBjhw27703 Still no go. Attached log. Perms are right.... webc@x61:~$ groups webc root kmem video Ok looking deeper I found /usr/bin/X gets further, but doesn't seem to be take in the -config argument. # -logfile can only be used as root?? # xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /usr/bin/X -config xorg.webc.config :1 -auth /tmp/serverauth.CBjhw27703 # is moans about not being able to move the log file # This actually works: xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /usr/bin/X :1 -auth /tmp/serverauth.CBjhw27703 # But without xorg.webc.config Any ideas where I am going wrong here? Kind regards,
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