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Date:      Wed, 8 Aug 2001 11:40:15 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
To:        Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86 wierdness
Message-ID:  <20010808114015.B49570@itouchnz.itouch>
In-Reply-To: <20010807184726.B1531@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>; from leblanc%2Bfreebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:47:26PM -0400
References:  <20010806181635.A3544@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> <5622162137.20010806152720@dsl-only.net> <4gwv4gyehk.v4g@localhost.localdomain> <20010807173144.A1531@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> <20010808093942.B38018@itouchnz.itouch> <20010807184726.B1531@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>

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On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:47:26PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> This is what it says:
> 
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log"
> 
> 

When you're configuring and testing your X setup, you need to be
running as root. Are you getting that error when you run startx as
root?
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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