Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:20:26 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg problem 6.9 >> 7.2 Message-ID: <466A46AA.2080409@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <200706082309.22118.david@vizion2000.net> References: <4668F03E.9050306@bah.homeip.net> <466930BE.2010505@bah.homeip.net> <46696287.90306@gmx.de> <200706082309.22118.david@vizion2000.net>
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David Southwell wrote: > On Friday 08 June 2007 07:07:03 [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > >> Bernt Hansson wrote: >> >>> [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: >>> >>>> Bernt Hansson wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello >>>>> >>>>> I've upgraded Xorg to 7.2 on a 6.2-stable machine according to >>>>> UPDATING. >>>>> >>>>> If I'am trying startx as a normal user I get this error >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> AUDIT: <date ¥ time> : pid X: client 1 rejected from local host (uid >>>>> 1001) >>>>> >>>>> Xlib: Connection to "0:0" refused by server >>>>> Xlib: No protocol specified >>>>> >>>>> Starting from root no problem. >>>>> >>>>> As a normal user /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 starts fine. >>>>> >>>>> I'm guessing it's a permissions problem, is it? >>>>> >>>> I suggest you check all the pathnames in your xorg.conf, I had a similar >>>> problem and adjusting paths solved them. >>>> >>> What paths did you have in mind? I regenerated the xorg.conf file after >>> upgrading. >>> >> Setting >> >> ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" >> >> is the most important one. >> > I have just completed a portupgrade to 7.2 but have not yet restarted the > server. How do I "regenerate" xorg.conf? > > Thanks in advance > > david > > Try running X -configure as root. This will generate an xorg.conf.new file in /root and you can test it by running X -config /root/xorg.conf.new If it works you can then copy it to /etc/X11 and make any other necessary changes. Having upgraded myself, I found I did not need to regenerate the conf, just make the changes suggested in UPDATING like the ModulePath stated above.
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