I've done a clean install of Hamm and have success. (Debian is exposing all my M$ preconception and stupidities but is starting to look just about there -- hooray!)
I now have startx working fine from root and X set up for my card, monitor, PS2 mouse etc. I declined to let dselect configure xdm into my startup as I prefer to launch X myself with startx. However, and this is new to me, I am now told that I can't launch the xserver except as root. The message refers to using xwrapper but I can't find that, or else it says I can use xdm, presumably from /etc/initab It deprecates using the setuid bit and I've not mastered that idea anyway so I'm happy not to use it (feeble grin) Can someone tell me how, without going through dselect again, which never sets X up properly for me, I can: a) get xwrapper or some other safe way to be able to launch an xserver as an ordinary user or, less to my liking but ... fine ... (!) b) get xdm launched properly from the init TIA Chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null