It looks like when I run XFree86 as root, it drops its privileges for some reason. If I
copy the binary to root's home dir and take off the setuid bit, it runs fine and
probes the card. If I then copy the config file to /etc/X11 and restart the system, there
are a bunch of "avc: denied" errors for XFree86.log in the syslog when gdm tries
to start. Anyone have any ideas?
-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-test-list-bounces(a)redhat.com on behalf of Albert Wold
Sent: Thu 4/1/2004 11:40 AM
To: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com
Cc:
Subject: system-config-display
I have a brand new system with an 865 video card (I think) and a Dell 19" flat panel.
When I installed, I don't remember seeing a section to configure X. When I booted,
it tried to start X several times and gave up. After some digging, I found the
system-config-display program and ran it. It says this:
* ddcprobe returned bogus values:
ID: None
Name: None
HorizSync: None
VertSync: None
Trying with card: Intel 865
Error, cannot start X server.
So, apparently it doesn't work with this display. I also tried XFree86 -configure
which gives me an error saying "unable to locate/open config file:
"/root/XF86Config.new"". For now, I'm wondering if anyone knows of an
alternate way to manually configure it. I see that there is no xf86config command, which
is what I used last time I had to do a manual X config.
-Al
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