Subject: Re: XWindows in user mode; also, OpenLook
To: CTAPYXA <ctapyxa@UCSD.Edu>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/10/1998 19:00:07
CTAPYXA wrote:
>
> When I log in as user (not root) and try to start XWindows it gives adb
> error. I have my startup files from root copied over to my user directory.
> Anybody knows what the problem is? Is it at all possible?
What is the exact error message that it gives you? It sounds like 1 of 2
things are happening...either you're trying to start X while some other
device has is using /dev/adb (if that's the case, the error would probably
be "/dev/adb: device busy"), or somehow you have the access permissions
on /dev/adb set incorrectly (in which case the error message is problem
something like "/dev/adb: permission denied").
Which of these is it? If it's the latter, do the following as root:
chmod 666 /dev/adb
and it should fix it.
I hope this helps.
Later.
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Colin Wood cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6 Intel Corporation
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