if nothing else works, this should: :; chmod 4711 /usr/bin/Xorg
that was changed to not be suid some time back, relying instead on things like elogind. but the old way should still work. on gentoo the suid use flag for x11-base/xorg-server would do that at merge time. -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6