On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:59:09PM -0500, Heath Doane wrote:
> Greetings,
> 3) "Normal" user is unable to run X successfully. Root has no problems,
> but when a regular user starts X, the server loads, the screen goes blue
> with an "X" cursor, but the KDE desktop never appears (some drive activity,
> but no desktop)
>
I had this problem when I installed a fresh oxygen while retaining my previous
/home partition. I created new users using the same name as the previous users
(thus reusing the old user's dirs), but the install gave them new uid's. So
when I tried to log in to my old account, I had no permissions to write to my
account, which I believe is necessary when starting kde. You may want to check
if your normal user account is owned by the user you think is supposed to own
it. If this isn't the problem, I don't know what it might be. But because
root can log in, I wouldn't be surprised if its permissions-related.
-Scott
