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MonkeyMartin
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Joined: 19 Mar 2003
Posts: 272
Location: Canada

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 7:35 am Post subject: x won't start (nonly starts from root)

I can startx from root but when i am a normal user it won't work

this is the meseg that i get

Code:

Faile to add glx extention (nvidia XFree86 drive not found) /home/mike/.xinitrc: /home/mike/.xinitrc: permission denied

I have a .xinitrc file in /home/mike

I just thinlk it is a problem with permissions

or do i have to edit this file
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McFly0
n00b
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Joined: 16 Aug 2003
Posts: 32

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 8:15 am Post subject:

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I just thinlk it is a problem with permissions

So it looks like ;-)

try as root following:

Code:

chown -R mike:users /home/mike

and then again try to startx as mike - hope it works for u

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