Thanks for the quick reply, Jens!
Good news, though! I've just figured out the problem on my own Turns
out that when I'd configured things, I'd screwed things up in the
/etc/X11/Xservers file.
I'd made a duplicate of the original, X server line (line 1), changed the
first line and put
Kevin, this is probably a feature (only the maintainer and his/her hairdresser
know for sure). The X server, because it gets into your hardware, needs root
permission. Historically this meant the server executable was setuid root.
Naturally this is a security hole so they've probably left setuid of
> okay; however, I can't `startx' as a regular user. I get a "no
> permission" or some such. Everything works perfectly when running as
> root - however, I'd rather not
"No permission" for what? I recently ran into this. My /dev/psaux (my
ps/2 port) was not chmod'ed 666 so only root could
I'm fairly new to X, so this might be an RTFM question. If so, please
point me to where I can find an answer.
I've just installed Hamm and X on my notebook here and all's working
okay; however, I can't `startx' as a regular user. I get a "no
permission" or some such. Everything works perfectl
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