I can X as user, but not as super user

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David_Velden2 · Post by **David_Velden2** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:20 pm

Hi, I had a perfectly working X, until I decided to do an emerge --world --deep. Now it only works when I'm logged in as user and not when I'm root. Why is this, and how can I help it. The errors given are, when launching X as su:

no matching device section for instance (bus ID PCI:1:0:1) found
symbol drmgetclient from module /usr/lib64/module/drivers/radeon_drv/o is unresolved

and

could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/local/ removing from list

I would expect I could launch anything as superuser if I could launch it as user.

Thank,
David (holland)

PS, if you'll need to see my xorg.conf an Xorg.0.log, I've got em here. I'll postem if it would help. Just say so.

Varean · Post by **Varean** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:58 am

Its the same here, but I have heard many people say that launching anything graphical from X as su can REALLY screw up your system. I also can't startx as su, but that's how I have learned Gentoo. Just Su when you start up your DE/WM and go from there.

David_Velden2 · Post by **David_Velden2** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:18 pm

Yep, I'm working from a beautifully working KDE right now and I'm very happy with it. It was just curiousity that I wanted to know why I couldn't launch X as su. I was hoping for a nice little story about permissions and so on. I'll just take your word for it that it isn't a good thing to run x as su and leave it by that.

Thanks for your reply!
Greetz

dandellion · Post by **dandellion** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 4:34 am

well, you're lucky. I can-t X as a user. with root it goes just perfect.
error message is similar to david's.
can anybody help_