On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:10:46PM +1100, David Fisher uttered:
> Sorry 'bout the previous empty message, I'm not used to mailx.
> Due to a recent death in the family (ie my rusty trusty Matrox Mill G200)
> I have had to install a borrowed S3 ViRGE DX. I have rerun xf68config and now
> when I try startx as user david I get
> X: user not authorised to run the X server, aborting.
>
> Now I know there's a fix for this but I cannot for the life of me remember
> it.
>
steven@broken:~$ cat /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
allowed_users=console
nice_value=-10
That pretty much sounds like your problem. Other than that. I'm out of ideas.
(IE: that's what the file should say)
> Anyone help, please? We have Debian Woody, Xfree86 4.0.2.
>
> TIA,
> David (lost without EXMH)
>
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