>  Hi,

>   I can't start xconsole as a user. I always get the error "Couldn't 
>open console".

>  I've tried everything.  Making it suid and sgid root, making 
>/dev/console (the only thing I could think of) world read/writeable and 
>still nothing works!

>  The only way I can start it is by 'su'ing to root.

>  Help please!
Hello,
When I had this problem, it was because of my HOMEdir .fvwmrc file... I just removed it and it worked OK :
In that case, X looks for /usr/lib/X11R6.1/fvwm/system.fvwmrc file in which are many info about the boot...

You can also make a symbolic link named X11R6 to X11R6.1 in the same directory.
It also worked.

Hope it'll help you

Cheers
Mirko