Not able to start X as normal user

Zbigniew Luszpinski zbiggy at o2.pl
Fri Feb 27 00:54:53 CET 2009


Thursday 26 of February 2009 23:46:09 unni krishnan wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am getting following error when starting X as normal user :
>
> Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.27.10 i686
> Current Operating System: Linux host.webofunni.com 2.6.27.10 #1 SMP PREEMPT
> Wed Dec 24 21:37:14 CET 2008 i686
> (WW) xf86ReadBIOS: Failed to open /dev/mem (Operation not permitted)
> (WW) xf86OpenConsole: chown /dev/tty7 failed: Operation not permitted
> (WW) xf86OpenConsole: chown /dev/tty0 failed: Operation not permitted
> xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
>
> I am able to start X as root and using xfce as desktop interface. Please
> help.

Please attach:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

thanks for report,
Zbigniew  'zbiggy' Luszpinski


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