[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > okay...it didn't work at first so i installed some more packages and > eventually tried XF86Setup and it basically worked fine (messed up screen > though) so i used my config file instead -- didn't work. so i ran XF86Setup > again, this time trying to more or less reproduce my old config file with > that setup program, and this time i even got a nice screen and a good > resolution. anyway, when i run startx it doesn't work either. the problem is > with X because i get the following output when i run either X or startx: > > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. > var: nice_value, value: -10. > > the funny thing is that i can start x out of that XF86Setup thingie but not > from the command-line. can you help me out? anyone? > > thanks! > > -amael
XF86Setup uses the VGA16 server. >From the commandline, are you root, or someone else? * Heather Stern * star@ many places...
