[Newbie]Can't startx.. help

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Yes, I have an idea.  Go to /var/log as root

touch XFree86.0.log

if it doesn't exist

If it does exist:

chmod 777 XFree86.0.log

You should be able to open it up then.

Mark LaPierre

hestyp@yahoo.com wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>This might be something simple, whenever I tried
>to startx as user, I get error:
>
>Fatal Server Error:
>Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log"
>
>Now, I can startx as root, but that's not a solution.
>I did download and install some files from 
>gatos.sourceforge.net.
>
>Any idea?
>
>Cheers,
>Hesty
>
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