Re: X weirdness after today's woody upgrade

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:14:06AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > 2. I had set X to run the version 3 xserver-svga, but version 4.01 > runs instead. > > However, /etc/X11/X is a symlink to /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA and Strange, but /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA and /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 were identical. I

Re: X weirdness after today's woody upgrade

on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:14:06AM -0800, Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > After running an upgrade of woody today I notice two strange things > happening with X: > > 1. If I try to run X as a user, I get the message: > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. This questi

X weirdness after today's woody upgrade

After running an upgrade of woody today I notice two strange things happening with X: 1. If I try to run X as a user, I get the message: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. The second line in Xserver says "Console" so a user should be permitted to run X. 2. I had set X to ru

Re: X Weirdness

Are you out of quota or out of diskspace?? What happens if you start X as root? Ron Rademaker On Tue, 23 May 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > > I've installed X 3.3.6-6 on my Toshiba Sat Pro 4270 (laptop). The machine > has an S3 Savage card, and I've installed the latest drivers from the s3

X Weirdness

hi I've installed X 3.3.6-6 on my Toshiba Sat Pro 4270 (laptop). The machine has an S3 Savage card, and I've installed the latest drivers from the s3 site. The server is identifying my machine's video card correctly, and is not producing any errors on start up ... BUT ... all I get is a blank scre

X weirdness

I've found a work-around solution to my problems with startx that I posted last night. For those who didn't see it, if I executed startx more than once, my machine would lock up solid. The solution? I enabled xdm at boot, and now that I'm learning how to use .xsession I can do what I want. Than