On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:33 +1000, Lennon Cook wrote: > I have finally found a solution to this problem - it appears that XOrg > needed to be compiled and installed as root. I haven't yet tested > changing ownership of the installed files to the package user yet, but > it seems to be working well (or, atleast, the previous problem is > solved).
Yes - the reason for this is that the X server is installed as suid-root so that it has the permissions to access hardware directly, something it can't do when running as a normal user. Simon.
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