On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 02:42:31PM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 02:21:36PM -0500, 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. > > > By default users can't startx. Use gdm or xdm or much around in /etc/X11 Bingo. There was a bunch of garbage text in /etc/X11/Xserver. Who knows how it got there. Deleted it, added "Console" as the second line. And it works. Now, I just need to investigate why my mouse isn't working :) Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org