2010/1/11 Ryan Daly <d...@ctc.com>: > On 01/11/2010 09:00 AM, Tom Cowell wrote: >> Does it work as root if you run it without strace or valgrind? >> >> Can you tell I'm getting out of my depth? > > startx works as root if that's what you mean... > Yes, that's what I meant. I suppose the action of strace (and valgrind, probably) will slow things down, so maybe the "timeout" messages can be taken at face value, and maybe there is a timeout that can be increased so that the strace/valgrind of startx as root can be made to work.
I'll look in man pages and let you know if I find anything. Cheers Tom _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg