I am not using hamm, but is the wrapper /usr/X11R6/bin/X suid root? On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Carlo U. Segre wrote:
> > I have been trying to install a new machine with the frozen hamm > distribution and I am running into 2 problems with X11. > > 1. No user outside root is allowed to start X11. This may be a > configuration issue but I know that this did not happen in Debian 1.3 > > 2. I use a S3 ViRGE video card and I am noticing that I have a corrupted > text console screen when I exit X (running it as root, of course). This > happens both when I am using the SVGA server and the S3V server. > > I am about to drop back to 1.3 out of frustration but wondered if these > problems are just my incompetence... > > Cheers, > > Carlo > > > <-------------------------------> > > Carlo U. Segre > Associate Professor of Physics > Illinois Institute of Technology > Chicago, IL 60616 > Voice:(312) 567-3498 > FAX: (312) 567-3494 > http://www.iit.edu/~segre > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > /*********************** Running Debian Linux *********************** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WEB: http://mills-usa.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * ********************************************************************/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
