Finally..
On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:21:10 +1200
Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Then I'd be tackling why X only runs as root
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
-X always runs as root.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ps aux | grep X
root 5682 3.7 3.8 50248 14868 ? S 13:33 0:45 /etc/X11/X
-nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-bo6EWW vt7
It drops root privs as soon as it has got access to the hardware.
Do you mean that you can only use it if logged in as 'root'?
Yes, that is what I meant. User startx did fail each time.
If they are not there atm. add these lines to the end of the XF86Config file:
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Went to try this, but cannot run Gentoo now. Hdd amendment since install
has shifted it from hda6 to hda7 - I guess this would affect it
internally. The reiserfs was unhappy before then anyway, & now it says
"Filesystem couldn't be fixed :( " - looks like a reinstall before 27
Oct (fun fun fun). Ext3 of course!! :-)
Cheers anyway, Rik
