strange, I have no problem using startx as a user.
It still think your problem is the permissions (files and directories) why don't you 
change them
when you are logged as root?
Lionel
--- Anant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, now that I've finally got X to work on my Dell Latitude running
> FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE with ATI Mobility M4 (32 MB RAM) video card, there
> remains the problem of being able to change the screen resolution.
> Right now, I have the Modes set to 1400x1050 (including the ModeLine,
> the key part of the config file).  But when I start X, it still shows up
> in the largest available resolution: 1600x1200.  I've even tried paging
> through the resolutions in KDE through Ctrl+Alt+- or something like
> that.  Anyone know how to fix it?  Also, I know there's probably a
> simple way to do this, but how do you let a non-root  user startx?
> Whenever I try to startx as a normal user, I get an error saying that it
> could not open the log file.   When I tried changing the permissions on
> it, I got another error saying I must be suid.  Can anyone help? Thanks
>  
> Anant
> 


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