From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 12:29:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA7C16A4CF for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:29:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from slb-smtpout-01.boeing.com (slb-smtpout-01.boeing.com [130.76.64.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4742443D2F for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:29:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sandysj@juno.com) Received: from slb-av-01.boeing.com ([129.172.13.4])id MAA04600 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:29:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from blv-hub-01.boeing.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])MAA13438 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:29:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from juno.com (esg164.ca.boeing.com [136.203.135.132]) i2NKRPk19754 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:27:25 -0800 (PST) Sender: jps1330@blv-hub-01.boeing.com Message-ID: <40609DC9.879BF45F@juno.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:27:53 -0800 From: Jeff Sandys X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76i [en] (X11; U; AIX 4.3) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: User startx ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:29:15 -0000 As root I can start X-windows with startx, but as a user I get this message: xauth: timeout in locking authority file ... This is on FreeBSD 4.9 with XFree86-3.3.6, Xfree86-4.x won't run with my graphics card. I installed wrapper-1.0.3 from packages, how do you configure and run it? Is this the right wrapper for Xfree86-3.3.6? How can users start X-windows? Thanks, Jeff Sandys