From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 4 06:24:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA19374 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 06:24:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from easeway.com (ns1.easeway.com [209.69.71.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA19366 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 06:24:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlucas@easeway.com) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by easeway.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id JAA09358 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 09:03:35 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199901041403.JAA09358@easeway.com> Subject: different X resolution as root or non-root To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 09:03:35 -0500 (EST) From: mwlucas@exceptionet.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, I rather foolishly touched a working system by buying a new motherboard, video card, etc. I installed my -current drive in this machine and, to my surprise, everything worked. My X setup had to be changed, of course. Now, when I run startx as root, it works perfectly. When I run startx as a non-root user, it comes up in 320x200. Any thoughts? I assume I'm missing something fairly basic... Regards, ml -- Michael Lucas | Exceptionet, Inc. | www.exceptionet.com "Exceptional Networking" | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message