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Blake Gideon

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From: Los Angeles, CA

Registered: 2009-09-14

Posts: 57

xfce Display Permissions? problem

EDIT: THIS IS A MORE PERTINENT ISSUE
I just got the following when started xfce4:

Unable to load a failsafe session

Unable to determmine failsafe session name. possible causes:
xfconfd isn't running (d-Bus) setup problem); enviorment variable
$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set incorrectly (must include "/etc"), or xfce4-session
is installed incorrectly

However, startxfce4 works as root. What is going on here?

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These are the Drivers listed in the beginners guide:

# xf86-video-i740 — Intel i740 video driver
# xf86-video-i810 — Intel i810/i830/i9xx video drivers (deprecated - use -intel)
# xf86-video-intel — Newer Version of Intel i810/i830/i9xx video drivers
# xf86-video-intel-legacy — Legacy-driver for older intel cards as 82865G (xf86-video-intel currently crashes with older cards)

Does my card even have an official linux driver yet? Is there anything above VESA?

Thank You

Last edited by Blake Gideon (2009-09-16 04:12:29)

Blake Gideon

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From: Los Angeles, CA

Registered: 2009-09-14

Posts: 57

Re: xfce Display Permissions? problem

[blake@HP4510 root]$ pacman -Qs xf86-video-intel
local/xf86-video-intel 2.8.1-1 (xorg-video-drivers) 
X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers

Based on some searching, I'm inclined to believe I installed the wrong driver to begin with. How can I uninstall this and install the non-depreciated driver?

Should I do this?  ---->>>

pacman -Rs xf86-video-intel

Last edited by Blake Gideon (2009-09-16 02:50:06)

takedown

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2008-08-31

Posts: 219

Re: xfce Display Permissions? problem

x86-vide-intel
I have the same in my thinkpad and work very well

Acecero

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Registered: 2008-06-21

Posts: 1,373

Re: xfce Display Permissions? problem

Go with the xf86-video-intel driver.

Blake Gideon

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From: Los Angeles, CA

Registered: 2009-09-14

Posts: 57

Re: xfce Display Permissions? problem

So I already have the right driver installed??

Acecero

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Registered: 2008-06-21

Posts: 1,373

Re: xfce Display Permissions? problem

If that driver is not working for you, did you try the other drivers available in the aur?

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O … _Search=Go

sHyLoCk

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: xfce Display Permissions? problem

So I already have the right driver installed??

I think I asked you to install that driver yesterday? You are asking the same question again. Are you facing any problems with that driver? Be more precise so that we can help you.

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Blake Gideon

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From: Los Angeles, CA

Registered: 2009-09-14

Posts: 57

Re: xfce Display Permissions? problem

I just got the following when started xfce4:

Unable to load a failsafe session

Unable to determmine failsafe session name. possible causes:
xfconfd isn't running (d-Bus) setup problem); enviorment variable
$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set incorrectly (must include "/etc"), or xfce4-session
is installed incorrectly

However, startxfce4 works as root. What is going on here?

sHyLoCk

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: xfce Display Permissions? problem

You installed as root hence your user doesn't have the permission and root owns all the files and directories created during your xfce install. Do this as root:

chown -R username:username /home/username/*

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sHy
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Blake Gideon

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From: Los Angeles, CA

Registered: 2009-09-14

Posts: 57

Re: xfce Display Permissions? problem

I still can't start xfce4 as a regular user.

Here are my permissions for the users home folder:

bash-4.0# ls -l /home/blake/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 blake blake 4096 2009-09-16 02:59 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 2 blake blake 4096 2009-09-16 06:31 Scripts
bash-4.0#

The only thing I could deduce from the error code was something going on with dbus, but dbus is set to start in rc.conf, do I need to copy rc.conf to a directory owned by a normal user?

peart

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From: Kanuckistan

Registered: 2003-07-28

Posts: 510

Re: xfce Display Permissions? problem

When you install xfce4, the dbus-core package gets pulled in as a dependency, but dbus apparently does not.  You should make sure it is installed.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70716

Blake Gideon

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From: Los Angeles, CA

Registered: 2009-09-14

Posts: 57

Re: xfce Display Permissions? problem

Looks like I have dbus installed:

bash-4.0# pacman -Qs dbus
local/dbus 1.2.16-1
    Freedesktop.org message bus system
local/dbus-core 1.2.16-1 (base)
    Freedesktop.org message bus system
local/dbus-glib 0.80-1
    GLib bindings for DBUS

alejorosado

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Registered: 2009-12-19

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Re: xfce Display Permissions? problem

Hi .. could you tell me how did you solve your problem ? I am experiencing the same issue .... can't start xfce4 as a regular user.
I did chown -R user:user /home/user/* .... and nothing happened ...

Thank you in advance