-> From: Rich Sahlender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org -> Subject: Re: X on latest potato? -> -> It turns out there was a little more to this than just a symlink -> for /dev/fb to /dev/fb0. In my case, /dev/fb0 somehow had perms -> -> crw--w--w- 1 root tty 29, 0 Mar 30 22:46 /dev/fb0
This looks correct to me, it should be like that, shouldn't it? -> -> so running X as root worked fine after the symlink but still -> failed for normal user. Once I added the user to group tty and -> added read to the group perms X starts fine for normal user. I think that you were trying to run X as a normal user, which by default should not happen. You can overwrite the default by adding "Anybody" after the line which says /usr/bin/X11/X-something in your /etc/X11/Xserver file. However, you are at risk here! A better option is to run xdm and let X to be run only by root. Sergio.