unlike my desktop, where the /etc/X11/X link didn't get created at all, on my laptop it exists and it points to /usr/X11R6/bin/X. but if i type 'startx -- :1' i get an endless stream of:
var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. var: nice_value, value: . what i find puzzling is if i redirect the output to a file i get this : waiting for X server to begin accepting connections . xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unexpected signal 2 waiting for X server to shut down and nothing else. strange... --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |