From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 7 16:41: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB8237B405 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:40:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f77NeFL49888; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 11:40:15 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 11:40:15 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Louis LeBlanc Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 wierdness Message-ID: <20010808114015.B49570@itouchnz.itouch> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010807184726.B1531@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>; from leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:47:26PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny" - Kin Hubbard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message