On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Joshua Uziel wrote: > Also, I wasn't able to run X as a non-root users until I ran > "chmod 666 /dev/fb?" as root as well, and you may have to do > the same. Took me a while to figure this one out, along > with the fact that strace would segfault when I'd try to run > "strace startx" either as myself or root.
That's interesting, given that /dev/fb* were all mode 664 root/root for me already. Is your /usr/X11R6/bin/X setuid root? (Not the X server itself, but the wrapper therefor.) I use xdm instead of startx, though. --Jeff