Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In Debian, unlike most linux distributions, /usr/X11R6/bin/X is not a >symlink to the `real' X binary. It's a wrapper-program which reads a >configuration file /etc/X11R6/xserver to find out which X server to >run (and some other things).
>In hamm (haven't got slink), this is documented in /usr/doc/xbase/ >The symptom you report: >> But still I can't run startx as user, only as root. >is the typical symptom indicating that /usr/X11R6/bin/X has been >turned in to a symlink, On 17 Mar 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> I just upgraded to slink, and followed the instructions to delete xbase. >> Lots of problems have resulted. >> I am very confused by the new X stuff. >> Startx wasn't installed, but I found it on the CDRom and installed it. >>To get startx to work I had to make a link from /etc/X11/XF86Config to > /etc/XF86Config and another from /usr/X11R6/bin.XF86_SVGA to X. >> But still I can't run startx as user, only as root. I found out what the problem was: apt-get had not installed one of the basic X packages (can't remember which). Installing this manually made X work. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/index.html "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
