Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 09:48:17 +0500 From: "Haikal Saadh" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> To: "'Jan Schlesner'" <jschlesn@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>, "'Ronan Lucio'" <ronan@melim.com.br> Cc: "'freebsd-stable'" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: non root XFree-4 Message-ID: <000d01c173da$16b99390$9ec801ca@warhawk> In-Reply-To: <20011122184404.A80385@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
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> > > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 03:23:56PM -0200, Ronan Lucio wrote: > > I have installed FreeBSD-4.4 + XFree-4_1 + Kde-2.2 > > Everything works fine except for the XFree just works > > with root, when I do a startx by a normal user, it returns > > a error: > > > > Fatal server error: > > xf860OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions You > > should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm. We strongly > > advise against making the server SUID root! > > If you don't want use xdm or kdm, you must install the x11/wrapper > package. (/usr/ports/x11/wrapper) > I tried using xwrapper with xfree off the 4.4 CD, and I find that wrapper nukes my XFree86 file, and if I rerun XF86Setup, I can get my config back, but now it says to go and install xwrapper again. Rinse. Repeat. I have gotten it working before with x4.1.0 from ports before, though, am I missing something? _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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