> > 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. > It looks like it is asking you to be logged in as root to startx. You > can also do something like the following to capture the output of > startx. > startx > x.txt 2>&1 > Hope this helps, > eric :-) >
hmmm, alright, i did this again. startx produces the following output (as root): var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. var: nice_value, value: -10. X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting. giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno111): unable to connect to X server. xinit: No such process (errno3): Server error. now, i know that X is in /usr/bin/X11 so if i copy it to /etc/X11/ my output is basically the first two lines of the above output, repeated infinitly. as i said, XF86Setup manages to start X in svga and everything seems okay, but if i start it manually (either as normal user or root) it doesn't work. thanks for your time! -amael
