[SGVLUG] strange dual head problem

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 00:58, Claude Felizardo wrote:
> That was one of the last things i tried adding.  Didn't have an effect
> though i did spell DRI with lowercase.
> 
> A few other things people have suggested are to see what user is
> running the X server (if it's root, then its not a permission problem)

The X server it's self has to run as root as it has to access memory and
hardware directly. I don't know how you plan to use the system but have
you tried gdm,kdm,xdm as these run as root until a user logs in and tend
to fix permission problems.

> otherwise look at the stuff in /dev/ and see if anything looks
> suspicious.  Another thing to look at is permissions for kde files. 
> Maybe while running as root it created a file only it can read?  Oh, i
> did verify that i can read /etc/X11/xorg.conf though I can not do a
> directory of /etc/X11.
> 
> Also looked at /var/log/messages, no obvious messages there either.
> 
> I'll try this tomorrow.
> thanks.
>