First, I assure you that both the "as root" and "as user" tests were done
using the same command line:

startx -- -config xorg.conf.hdboot

And that the "as root" works, and the "as user" doesn't.

The huge surprise is, that when I took your suggestion and copied
xorg.conf.hdboot
to /System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf (*and* the symlink to
/Programs/Xorg-App/Settings/X11),
NOW X works for the ordinary user.

In response to your next question, about the keyboard vs PowerTOP:

cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/product
Razer BlackWidow Ultimate
USB Optical Mouse
EHCI Host Controller
UHCI Host Controller (repeated 3 more times)

The Razer is the keyboard I have plugged into this system.

So now X is working, though with a crappy 15 year old video card.

But at least that's something.

Thanks, everyone, for your help.  I hope this debugging has been useful
for the GoboLinux project.

Bill Dudley

This email is free of malware because I run Linux.

On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Hisham Muhammad <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 24 December 2016 at 12:29, William Dudley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I performed this operation.
> >
> > Still cannot get X to run as an ordinary user.
> >
> > Xorg.0.log files for success as root, and failure as user can be found
> here:
> >
> > http://www.dudley.nu/GoboLinux/Xorg.0.log-as-root
> >
> > http://www.dudley.nu/GoboLinux/Xorg.0.log-as-user
>
> The main difference is that the one running as root is using the
> config file /Users/dud/xorg.conf.hdboot, and the other one isn't.
>
> My hypothesis is that if you move this file to
> /System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf (possibly storing it at
> /Programs/Xorg-App/Settings/X11 and then symlinking it there for
> organizational purposes), running as user will work the same as
> running as root.
>
> > At least the bloody keyboard works now.
>
> To help me debug the problem with the PowerTOP task, could you give me
> the output of running this command?
>
>    cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/product
>
> Thank you!
>
> -- Hisham
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