> On Sep 25, 2004 at 16:33, Thomas E. Dukes in a soothing rage wrote: > >> On Sep 25, 2004 at 16:02, Thomas E. Dukes in a soothing rage wrote: > >> [...] > >> > >> >I'd like to be able to start X as root for such > occassions but this > >> >lead me back to my initial post. I didn't realize it was > an X/root > >> >thing until today. I still would rather boot to runlevel 3 > >> and stat X > >> >manually, when needed. > >> > > >> >What do I neet to edit to allow root to start X manually. > Its weird > >> >that it works under runlevel 5. > >> Repeat what I posted in my previous posts in this thread for root. > > > >I'm not sure what you posted. I have re-read your posts but > can't find > >anything specifically about root. I must have missed > something. Sorry. > I meant the files you created for the normal user. You have > to repeat the process for root as well. If you have > switchdesk installed you can execute 'swetchdesk gnome' as root. Hello, Yes, I did that. Still doesn't work. After I do a crtl-alt-backspace to kill the server, I see a message: FATAL: Module agpgart not found [drm] failed to load kernel module It looks like something may not be loading in runlevel 3. Any ideas? TIA