At 06:52 PM 2/17/1999 +0100, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: >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:
Yeah, this threw me my first time around. In Debian, the file that specifies the server to run is /etc/X11/Xserver. This is not a link, but a text file, the first line of which specifies the server to run. I would restore the file you backed up and then take a look at /etc/X11/Xserver.
