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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Problems with X as non-root
- Keywords: X tty
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.150309.18573@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 15:03:09 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.234613.4757@cs.tulane.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul21.234613.4757@cs.tulane.edu>, butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler) writes:
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- | I just Installed X11 last week (much thanks to the person who posted the
- | information on how to run X on a VGA in 640x400). But I still have one
- | problem. When I run X as a non-root user I get the message:
- |
- | Can't open '/dev/tty0'
- |
- | As far as I know, I followed all the instructions that said make sure you
- | do <this> if you want to be able to run X as a regular user. Any help
- | would be greatly appreciated.
-
- I didn't even see the instructions, and I get a slightly different
- message, but I have the same problem. Since I have more pressing
- problems I didn't worry about it, but it's a really odd choice of
- defaults.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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