Thank you sir, that worked like a charm.

i had tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and xserver-svga a million 
times, forgot about the common. DOH!


Tim Sandquist wrote:

> Ok, got it.
> 
> run: 
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common
> 
> I'm not sure if the xserver-common package is broken or what but I don't 
> remember seeing this config option when I upgraded.
> 
> Oh well, it works now.
> 
> Tim
> 
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:45:22AM -0600, Tim Sandquist wrote:
> 
>> I was just experiencing this same error.
>> My roommate is on debian-users so I'll ask him if he has seen
>> anything about this.
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:13:18AM -0600, Jason J wrote:
>> 
>>> Running Debian Woody. Finally decided to try the X 4.0.1 packages. 
>>> Installed them. Now i get the following error
>>> 
>>> X: *user not authorized to run the X server*, aborting.
>>> 
>>> I switched back to 3.3.6 and that same error is still there.  So its 
>>> something independent of there configs. 
>>> Root has no problem start 4 or 3. I created a fresh user just as a test, 
>>> and that user gets the same error. Only root can start the server, but i 
>>> cant find where I can change that to allow all users.
>>> 
>>> I got rid of the rootonly line in Xwrappers
>>> I change the second line of Xsession to Anybody just to make sure.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Any help would be appreciated
>>> 
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