On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 11:45, Adam Hewitt wrote: > Or if this is the problem, does anyone know how to get around this with > gdm?
Simply by using it. :) The X server doesn't crash for you, BTW. > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 17:38, Mathieu Segaud wrote: > > Adam Hewitt posted earlier on this list about problems to run latest > > dri X packages with a fresh 2.4.22-ben2 kernel. > > He can log as root into X with startx but not as any unprivileged > > user: > > so my question is :) > > is this related to XdmAuth missing and is there a hack like the one > > with xdm ? No, because as the name suggests, XdmAuth is related to xdm and other display managers and not involved with startx. Maybe it's just a matter of dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common ? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
