I have the same problem. I thought that it might be the permissions on special device files for the mouse and keyboard, but that didn't fix it.
On 29 Jul 1998, Petteri Kangaslampi wrote: > Hi all, > > First of all, thanks to everybody who has been working on Sparc > Debian so far. We installed Debian on a SparcStation SLC last > weekend, and it's been running since without any major > problems. The installation went smoothly, apart from having to > go a bit out of order to be able to read base from an > NFS-mount. We are still running the standard 2.0.33 kernel as I > don't even want to think how long compiling a kernel on this > machine would take... > > Anyway, the problem: I downloaded the X11 packages from > ftp.netg.se, and they are working fine, but only as root. If I > try to run it as a normal user, the X server complains: > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > Has anybody run into similar problems, and if so, found a > solution? /usr/X11R6/bin/X is setuid root and I have allowed > "Anyone" to run the X server from /etc/X11/Xserver. I downloaded > the uploaded packages today, but they have the same problem. > > I'll continue hunting for the problem myself, but I thought I'd > just bring up it here as well, as someone might have a solution. > > > Petteri > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dave Broudy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]