On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 12:59, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 25, 2004 at 13:22, Thomas E. Dukes in a soothing
rage wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >The video card is a matrox millenium g200.
> > >
> > >Here's the log. You asked for it. :-)
> > [...]
> >
> > I only saw a couple of warnings in there. Since this worked with
> > inittab = 5, my guess is .xinitrc or .Xclients-default is
not set up
> > right. Please post those if you have them.
> >
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Yes it works fine in runlevel 5. I did a locate for the 2
files you
> mentioned. I don't have either of those files (anywhere).
>
You should have a .Xauthority file. Try renaming that then
try the startx command.
Hi Jeff!
Unfortunately, that didn't work either. It seems to be the root account
can't start X manually from runlevel 3 but can login as root under runlevel
5.
It has to be a file somewhere preventing this similar to root not being able
to login via ftp.
Thanks!!