From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 27 13:29:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from colemantx.com (mail.colemantx.com [63.64.122.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585AA37B807 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:29:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rarnold@colemantx.com) Received: from colemantx.com [63.64.123.158] by colemantx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.00) id A2A8A564023A; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:29:12 -0600 Message-ID: <38DFD2A5.F47764EE@colemantx.com> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:29:09 -0600 From: "Ronald G. Arnold Jr." X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Parisis Flegkas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had a similar problem. What I did was, log in as root, cd /root ls to check for .xsession, then cp /.xsession /usr/home/yourusername/.xsession. That worked for me. Log in as user, type startx to check. Ronald Parisis Flegkas wrote: > > I have problems running the Xserver when I login as a user (not root). > When I login as a root the Xserver is working fine. > i get the following message > > XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System(protocol Version 11, revision 0, > vendor release 6300)Release Date: January 8 2000 If the server is > older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above > date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see > http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)Operating System: FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386 > [ELF] Configured drivers: S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors > (Patchlevel 0) newmmio, mmio_928, s3_genericFatal server > error:xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissionsYou > should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm.We strongly advise > against making the server SUID root!When reporting a problem related to a > server crash, please sendthe full server output, not just the last > messagesX connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message