J. S. Connell wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Joshua Uziel wrote: > > > Then perhaps something got unset from being SUID root on my > > system during installation. Looking at /usr/X11R6/bin/startx, > > the last line exec's xinit ... ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit shows: > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit isn't the wrapper, /usr/X11R6/bin/X is. xinit and/or > xdm both invoke that to start the X server, which in turn digs around in > /etc/X11/Xserver to find out (a) who may run it and (b) what the correct X > server to run is. > > Incidentally, why does /usr/bin/X11, which the X and FHS folks (if I recall > correctly) deprecated, seem to be making a resurgence in Debian?
I discovered that while upgrading my PC box to slink yesterday. Should be /usr/X11R6/bin/X instead. About wrong /dev/fb0 permissions, could someone investigate why X does not find the device if not world writable ? I was not able to track it down to the point (strace is segfaulting early on X, Xsun, startx, ...). Even with Xsun running suid I get the following error: "no screen found". > > Sure, why not? Or then, if the *only* mouse device is /dev/sunmouse > > then /dev/mouse could be the device and /dev/sunmouse can be > > skipped altogether... I'm indifferent... it's truly a matter of > > preference. I for one would probably just do the symlink method. > > I'd rather not see /dev/sunmouse disappear, because there may be things > unbeknownst to both of us that refer to it directly. Why X don't use /dev/sunmouse directly then ? And gpm too ? This way, no need to manage the symlink. BTW, gpm is already using dedicated devices on other architectures (/dev/ttyS0 on my PC box, /dev/psmouse on alpha by default). Another point about X: I'm using a french keyboard (latin1 layout) and I cannot switch back to virtual consoles. CTRL-ALT + F<n> are inoperant. Any advice ? Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
