X11 Won's Start as a User

Keith

Keith

I've got FreeBSD V. 8 stable and can't get X11 to start when logged in as a user. It will start and runs fine as root. When I log out of root and log in as a User (member of Wheel)startx fails with a few errors. One in particular may be the cause of it, "ww drmDropmaster failed: Unknown error: -1" Other errors like "Run mkfontdir on /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/util/" are there but I don't think they are causing the failure to start. I'm on a laptop with a WXGS 1440x900. I've added compatible resolution and I've got the correct video card detected. By the way, the error info I'm getting is from "/var/log/Xorg.0.log". Since this is a new OS install I'm not worried about other applications causing issues. So, I created a hidden file called .xinitrc in /usr/home/Keith but still startx does not work. Anyone got an idea to make it work? Thanks.
 
Please post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
Also post the output of # pkg_version -v | grep xorg.
 
Ok. but.. I just noticed that I can't su with my user account, although I belong to Wheel. So, when I get this figured out I will continue with my 1st posted problem.
 
Keith said:
Ok. but.. I just noticed that I can't su with my user account, although I belong to Wheel. So, when I get this figured out I will continue with my 1st posted problem.
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Might be a typo, it might not but it's wheel not Wheel :e

And you have to log out and back in for the group membership to change.
 
This was my fault. I had both a Wheel and a wheel group, so clearing out Wheel was needed. I removed my 2 users and then recreated them. In /usr/home/Kyle I added an empty file called
.initrc but in /usr/home/Keith I did not add the file. Sure enough, startx worked for Keith but did not work for Kyle. So, now I'm going to move onward to installing KDE4 - I'm kind of scared about what's going to happen next: If I have to include the .xinitrc file in users home directories then the X application is not going to start {it would seem}.
 
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