> > 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!!
