From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 4 06:41:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA21525 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 06:41:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA21520 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 06:41:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0zxBC5-0000ky-00; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 14:41:21 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id OAA03081; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 14:41:00 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08687; Mon, 4 Jan 99 14:40:56 GMT Message-Id: <3690D2F2.630F8F5A@uk.radan.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 14:40:50 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: mwlucas@exceptionet.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: different X resolution as root or non-root References: <199901041403.JAA09358@easeway.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mwlucas@exceptionet.com wrote: > > 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... > When running as non-root can you cycle through the resolutions using ``Ctrl-Alt-+'' and ``Ctrl-Alt--'' (that's the plus or minus keys)?. Also try renaming the .xinitrc in the non-root user's home dir and cp'ing the one from root's home dir. If that works look for the differences in the file. > 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 -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message