problem with x

[nabil]

i cant srart x from root but ican start x from any user what can i do

[jaboua]

If you want root to use KDE, type this:

su -c "echo exec startkde > /root/.xinitrc"

If you want to use gnome, type this:

su -c "echo exec gnome-session > /root/.xinitrc"

If you want to use fluxbox, type this:

su -c "echo exec startfluxbox > /root/.xinitrc"

Or just change it to boot you're preferred X-client.

PS: It's useally a bad idea to use X as root, you can easily ruin your system.

[spencerf]

be careful though because if you use programs like firefox as root you are leaving yourself vulnerable to a security attack. Only use root when absolutely necessary!

[Willem]

I have a Gateway EV700 with a Chromatic Video card.
Amigo Zip has successfully loaded onto an extended dos drive using a vesa generic driver.
In my Ext3 drive with Red Hat 7.2 the driver fails to boot the monitor so I upgraded the xfree86 to 4.5.0. Still no.
After exploring it seems the vid card co has gone out of business and was supported in xfree86 3.3.*. So I would like to install that version of course...except the glib versions for 3.3 are glibc21 etc not the blibc22 which the Xinstaller pegged for me. Is there much of a difference between these two glibs?
...configged out