[ilugd]: Linux won't configure graphics on my PC

2002-07-18 Thread Krishna Dharasurkar
Hi! I am new to Linux. I wanted to load Linux on my PC. The version I tried out was PCQLinux 7.1 (That was the only version I could lay my hands on.) I tried loading Linux with graphics (GNOME & KDE both) on my PC. The partition, formatting and preliminary installation was so smooth, I could no

[ilugd]: X woes...

2002-08-02 Thread Krishna Dharasurkar
Hi, I got my P4 with 845 chipset working with PCQLinux 7.1 run X with a driver change to "vesa". Thanks to ilugd. Now I am having to run xdm explicitly to start X. For that I have to log in as root on the system. If any other account is used, it politely tells me "Only root wants to run xdm".