From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 27 8:33:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prue.eim.surrey.ac.uk (prue.eim.surrey.ac.uk [131.227.76.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7851D37BBFA for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 08:33:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from p.flegkas@eim.surrey.ac.uk) Received: from regan.ee.surrey.ac.uk ([131.227.89.11]) by prue.eim.surrey.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12ZcRa-00037N-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:32:46 +0100 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:32:46 +0100 (BST) From: Parisis Flegkas To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: X Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have problems running the Xserver when I login as a user (not root). When I login as a root the Xserver is working fine. i get the following message XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)Release Date: January 8 2000 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)Operating System: FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386 [ELF] Configured drivers: S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) newmmio, mmio_928, s3_genericFatal server error:xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissionsYou should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm.We strongly advise against making the server SUID root!When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please sendthe full server output, not just the last messagesX connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message