$ adduser username dip This worked fine
Of course only root can do this ... Regarding X there are two situations possible. If you run xdm as I would recommend, xdm handles all logins. Only root can start or end xdm but this is a feature, too. You can still kill the X server with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, but xdm will start one again. If you dont want to use xdm and it is not running, every user can start X with "startx" from the console. This should be no problem. If it is, maybe X has not the right permissions. Check with: $ ls -l /usr/bin/X11/X -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 4872 Jul 22 1998 /usr/bin/X11/X ^ This is important! Just set things up the way you like. X has the right permissions. But I thought of something else that might be causing the ploblem. To get X11 working (as root), I had to change XF86_VGA16 to XF86_S3. The book 'Running Linux' suggested to change the link /usr/bin/X11/X to point to XF86_S3. I noticed the file /usr/bin/X11/X wasn't a link. So I made a backup of the file and created a new link that pointed to XF86_S3. This way I could start X11 (but only as root). Could this be the problem? The system gives the following error if I try to start X when I am not logged in as a root: _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTServerListeners: server already running Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running. Thanks, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
