On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 02:27:08PM -0500, Timothy Wilson wrote: > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Michael Josephson wrote: > > > > I'll bet you're using Mandrake. Add yourself to the 'xgrp' in /etc/group and > > > all will be well. > > > > Nope, I'm using Debian. Just checked, there is no xgrp group. Funny thing is > > I first installed Debian a few weeks ago. I didn't have this problem then. I > > just reinstalled a couple of days ago, and now I can't run X. Clearly, I > > have installed/setup something correctly, but I can't figure out what. > > OK, strike #1. Here's another shot. Did you install X via dselect? If so, > did you choose 'task-x-window-system'? That should make sure that you get > all of the required components, libraries, etc. > Let me clarify, I can run startx as root, but not as a "normal" user. X starts up fine as root, so I don't think I'm missing any major components. Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org