On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 7:16 PM, William Dudley <[email protected]> wrote:

> One more thing.
>
> I figured out the difference between booting the Live CD and the booting
> off the hard disk and
> having X work or not.
>
> When the Live CD boots the console user is root.
>
> When I boot my hard disk install, I login to the console as an ordinary
> user.
>
> Just for the hell of it, I made myself root, and NOW X starts up OK, as
> long as I'm root.
>
> So there's some major permission problem with X.  The file "xorg.conf.new"
> that I manually
> edited to have "driver=vesa" is 644, so it's not a problem that it cannot
> be read by an ordinary
> user.
>

Oh! Could it be that /dev/dri/card0 has wrong permissions? Could you check
that?


> If we could fix the keyboard, I might actually continue to fool with
> GoboLinux.  Maybe.
>

Let me investigate that a bit more tonight. That problem definitely looks
like USB auto-suspend misbehaving.


Is there a way to get "sloppy focus" or "focus follows mouse" behaviour in
> "Awesome" ?
>

@Hisham, would you know that?

Lucas
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