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

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