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Yes I know, there are about a billion threads about this issue, but I'm afraid none of them have helped me so far.
So, basically as root I can startx just fine. But when I try to startx as my user "hb", I see the Nvidia logo and it jumps back to the console. It doesn't display any real errors, apart from some font and keyboard stuff, which isn't fatal to starting the X server as far as I know. The Xorg.0.log doesn't display any errors at all. So I really don't have a clue what the problem is.
I've installed Arch Linux just a week ago on this laptop and I didn't have any problems whatsoever, but I've tried to reinstall 3 times today and X11 keeps refusing to work...
I've used nvidia-xconfig to configure xorg.conf and I followed the wiki instructions (which worked for me the last time). But considering X11 works for root, the config file should be okay, right?
Last edited by HyperBaton (2008-02-03 12:50:11)
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Maybe the error lies in the .xinitrc of the hb user?
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I don't have a window manager installed yet. Seemed rather pointless when X wasn't working yet. The .xinitrc is there, but doesn't exec anything. But in the previous install I installed xfce4 and had .xinitrc do "exec xfce4-session", and the result was the same as now: X starts then jumps back to console.
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I've had some sort of similar issue some months ago, I'm not sure this can help you:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=35143
I actually had some errors, unlike you, but it's worth a try...
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Well, after yet another reinstall I was able to start the twm window manager as non-root user. To startxfce4 I had to chmod 1777 /tmp. Is this of any security risk? Changing it to 1777?
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1777 is what it should have been in the first place!
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Ah okay. Well I'm a happy camper now
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