Please read carefully I may have some useful information. Some interesting problems with autologin and X. I've been experimenting with an ET6000 video card on my machine. Autologin was installed on the machine. X was configured to start automatically. As I mentioned in a previous post if a frame buffer was used during the kernel boot X would fail to start (no screens). Once I removed Aurora X would start and boot my default user but a `layer' (as I call it) of graphics was missing with areas of colourless see through sections failing to fill in. But if I would log out or kill X, then X would restart correctly! What I have found from my experience with Mandrake is that when X first starts up and autologs in it is run by a user with superuser priviliges - kpm shows con* next to X. But if I log out and restart X it now is run by root. When X is started as root this problem disappeared. So I uninstalled autologin and discovered that this problem went away!! Point of the story - Make sure X is started as root rather than a user with superuser privileges. Hope this information is helpful. Con. __________________________________________________________________ Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au
