From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 11 20:10:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [204.179.120.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 943C237B405 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 20:10:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay02.mac.com (server-source-si02 [10.13.10.6]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.1/8.10.2/1.0) with ESMTP id fAC40ssD015217 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 20:00:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com ([10.13.10.66]) by smtp-relay02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 relay02 Jun 21 2001 23:53:48) with ESMTP id GMO69Q00.0VE for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 20:10:38 -0800 Received: from quinn ([24.91.220.49]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 asmtp02 Jun 21 2001 23:53:48) with ESMTP id GMO69P00.M0A for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 20:10:37 -0800 Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 23:10:35 -0500 Subject: Re: 4.4 - X windows starts for root only Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v472) From: Justin White To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <001901c16a34$12e7f680$0101a8c0@e1> Message-Id: <38DD5232-D723-11D5-8F86-000393092F82@mac.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.472) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, November 10, 2001, at 05:07 , Frank J. Eigler wrote: > Hi, > > I installed 4.4 but X windows can be started for root only. > > Hardware: > Intel SE440BX2NAV motherboard > ATI Rage Fury 32MB 2x AGP video card > SoundBlaster CT5803 soundcard > Linksys EtherFast LNE100TX v4.1 (ADMtek AN985 10/100TX) NIC > 512 MB PC100 SDRAM > WD 20GB harddrive > > I'm new to FreeBSD, and need advice. Could anyone tell me where to start > fixing this? check out /usr/ports/x11/wrapper cat pkg_descr for a quick look at what it (and any port) does alternatively, use xdm/gdm/kdm and login through that as your normal user as has been said before -Justin White | just6979@yahoo.com | http://justinfinity.2y.net:8080/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message