On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 06:05:48PM +0500, UMAIR YASIR ( IT HELP DESK ) wrote: > Parse error on line 2 of section (null) in file /root/XF86Config > "key" is not a valid keyword in this section. > (EE) Problem parsing the config file > (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() > > where as it works when I use my own login. > Why is it so and how can I fix it? When you start X as a user, it's using a different XF86Config file. If I remember correctly (I'm at work right now, so I can't check anything), X searches for an XF86Config file in a number of different locations. As root it appears to find the first one as /root/XF86Config. This file is not accessible as a user, so it will probably find a config file at a different default location (/etc/X11 for example). I think that if you remove/move the /root/XF86Config file, that it should work for root as well. The file /root/XF86Config contains an error according to your logfile. Regards, Pieter Hulshoff _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
