Hello, I have debian-hamm as of Dec. 19, (everything is libc6) installed. I cannot seem to get X to work when I am not root. It tells me that only root can run the server. I thought that there might be something wrong with permissions, so I reinstalled x-server-s3v. It installed OK with one error saying something about MAKEDEV cannot do something. I still can run X as root but not as a regular user.
I changed /etc/X11/config to allow anybody to login, and I tried 'console' -- still did not help. What could I be doing wrong? Another Question I have is how to make a background image (JPG or BMP) to appear when I start my X session. BTW, I did try to comment out and enable back the option that starts xdm on start -- it did not help. Actually I am not sure I understand what xdm does -- when I boot by box I still get the regular text only prompt -- is it how it should work? I also start my X sessions by typing 'startx' -- is that a correct way of starting X (as a user or as a root)? Thanks in advance, Vladislav > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .