At 10:00 PM 6/24/97 -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Jun 1997 14:28:43 +0930 (CST) 
> blymn@baea.com.au (Brett Lymn) wrote:
>
> > Is your X server setuid root?  It sounds like it needs to be.  I
> > suspect you may have left off the 'p' option when untarring the X
> > binaries....
>
>It shouldn't need to be:
>
>basalt (thorpej) ~ 133% ll /usr/X11R5/bin/XhpBSD 
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1296991 Oct 19  1994 /usr/X11R5/bin/XhpBSD*
>basalt (thorpej) ~ 134% ll /dev/grf* /dev/hil*
>crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   10,   0 Sep 30  1994 /dev/grf0
>crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   14,   0 Sep 30  1994 /dev/hil0

Ah ha! all my hil devices were read only. so strange.

thanx Jason!