On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Alex Salmon wrote:
> hi all
> I just got a new vid card and while setting it up i seems to have half
> broken X. it is X 4.0.2 and everything works as root but as a user.
>
> salmona@vila:~$ startx
>
> X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
> giving up.
> xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
> salmona@vila:~$
The problem is almost certainly not the new video card, but rather that
you have recently upgraded Woody (with X4.0.2 that's REALLY
likely). There's a well known bug in Woody that breaks user based X
server use at the moment. You will probably find that the first line of
/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config says allowed_users=root_only or some such,
change it to allowed_users=console, and your problem should be
fixed. Also, for future reference, it's bad for to say "my new vid card
broke X" and not tell us any salient facts, like what card it is... I
almost didn't bother to reply.
cheers,
Martin
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