On 09-Tou-01, Manuel wrote:

>> I'm having problems running X server as root user. I earlier asked for
>> help with GDM, but received none. As I explored, I came to conclusion
>> that GDM doesn't work correctly because X won't run under root correctly.

> Did you check difference in environnement variable ('env') between root and
> normal user ? You could also check differences between
> 'startx >& /tmp/log' for root and normal user.

Whoops, now I got it. There really was a difference. As normal user,
I always started X with "startx -- -bpp 32". Tried starting with plain
"startx" as normal user and lo, X didn't work correctly. I put
the "-bpp 32" to gdm.conf and it works a treat now.

But definitely somewhere seems to be a bug, if X server behaves incorrectly
in 8bpp mode.

I'm running X from stock 1.5 installation on i386. My gfx card is
Leadtek's (some implemenation of) Riva TNT2.

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