[plug] X, mutter

[Andrew Howell]

On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 11:48:27AM +0800, Jamie Moir wrote:
> 
> Umm, questions .. I recently got a little sparc set up with debian linux
> on it and when i try and run X both on it locally or via another box on
> my network, it will only start as root, as a user i get 
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> 
> i had a poke around and i couldnt really work out why ... any hints
> appreciated

Umm debian had some kind of wrapper that allowed normal users to start
X without the binaries having to be setuid root.

Not sure why it wouldn't work.

Tried asking on the debian-sparc mailing list?

Andrew

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