Re: [gentoo-user] can't start X as user

2023-06-16 Thread Björn Fischer
Hi Philip, My user is in 'tty wheel usb input video' (among others). that shoud suffice. You need to use '-keeptty' for xinit and preselect a TTY. For myself I have put this into my bashrc and it works quite well: xinit () { local VT; local DISPLAY; VT=vt$(tty | sed 's/.*tty//'

Re: [gentoo-user] can't start X as user

2023-06-15 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 15 June 2023 03:21:29 BST Philip Webb wrote: > 230614 Michael wrote: > > On Wednesday, 14 June 2023 01:21:53 BST Philip Webb wrote: > >> My new machine has no problem with graphics using System Rescue etc > >> nor using 'startx' as root with Gentoo, but it refuses to start as user. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] can't start X as user

2023-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
230614 Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 14 June 2023 01:21:53 BST Philip Webb wrote: >> My new machine has no problem with graphics using System Rescue etc >> nor using 'startx' as root with Gentoo, but it refuses to start as user. >> I've had a series of errors : >> parse_vt_settings : can't open

Re: [gentoo-user] can't start X as user

2023-06-14 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 14 June 2023 01:21:53 BST Philip Webb wrote: > My new machine has no problem with graphics using System Rescue etc > nor using 'startx' as root with Gentoo, but it refuses to start as user. > > I've had a series of errors : > > parse_vt_settings : can't open /dev/tty0 (permission

Re: [gentoo-user] can't start X as user

2023-06-13 Thread Jack
On 6/13/23 20:21, Philip Webb wrote: My new machine has no problem with graphics using System Rescue etc nor using 'startx' as root with Gentoo, but it refuses to start as user. I've had a series of errors : parse_vt_settings : can't open /dev/tty0 (permission denied) after adding my user t

[gentoo-user] can't start X as user

2023-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
My new machine has no problem with graphics using System Rescue etc nor using 'startx' as root with Gentoo, but it refuses to start as user. I've had a series of errors : parse_vt_settings : can't open /dev/tty0 (permission denied) after adding my user to 'tty input' in 'group' : can't open