From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 12:53:13 2002 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 D7FBB37B43E for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:52:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078F443E42 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:52:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (11f423b233b27c9960b8f4b3e21683f3@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6QIic2e056973; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6QIicHq056972; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:44:38 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: Danny Howard Cc: "FreeBSD_Questions (E-mail 2)" Subject: Re: X only works with root Message-ID: <20020726184437.GN50921@vectors.cx> References: <71ED4DBF1EA19A45A3765CA9548BE30A2133@server1.electrosoftsolutions.com> <00b101c2328d$a91fdb50$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <1027458856.2700.12.camel@lerlaptop.iadfw.net> <20020726105321.F12520@pianosa.catch22.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020726105321.F12520@pianosa.catch22.org> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG if you've installed x11/wrapper and put the normal permissions back on the Xfree86 server, if startx doesn't fire up X, it's an XF86Config problem. and we'd need to see the output to point you to what is wrong there. -Adam >> (07.26.2002 @ 1053 PST): Danny Howard said, in 0.5K: << > On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 04:14:16PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: > > Also, make sure you have the x11/wrapper port installed, assuming a > > XFree86 V4 install.... > > Okay, the idiot question: > > Once you install x11/wrapper, what do you do to start X? Figuring out a > new way to start X annoys me too much, so I've just been putting the > SUID bit back on my X server so startx would go. > > -danny > > -- > http://dannyman.toldme.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >> end of "Re: X only works with root" from Danny Howard << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message