Hello I am new to this list but have been using Fedora since the beginning & Before that I was using Red Hat. I have recently upgraded from FC6 to Fedora 7. Since then I have had to reinstall it a couple of times. The first time was due to seLinux being set as default as enforced & it would not allow me to download programs from the internet so I had the gumshoe to attempt to uninstall it. Well Linux being a house of cards that made my installation non-bootable & unrepairable with out a reinstall. Well after a little research I found out that seLinux could be disabled which was fine with me. So then after several package updates & the total struggle of getting DVD, MP3 support in my system again, which is something I feel should be included even though they do not comply with the philosophy of "FREE", some updates came down for seLinux & I applied them even though I had it disabled on my system. Then shortly after that I started having trouble useing programs that require root access from my user account. I am able to login as root when that package updater says that there are updates available but the application will not run & neither will any other program that requires root access to run. However I am able to login to gnome as root from the GDM & run all the programs I want. I tried deleting the user account & creating another user account with a totally differnet user name & password & the same thing occurred. Overly frustrated with attempting to get the DVD, MP3 etc support, I did not want another problem to resolve so I just re-installed the OS again to start over again. So here I am again. I dissabled seLinux & thistime refused to download & install any updates to seLinux but yet again I am not able to run the package updater or any other program that requires root access from my user account. I am entering the password correctly & am able to login as root in the terminal but when I type the command 'pup' for the package updater I get the following: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 31, in <module> import gtk File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 76, in <module> _init() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in _init _gtk.init_check() RuntimeError: could not open display I would tell you what my system log says but I am useing my user account & can not access it with out loging out & back in as root. This is so frustrating! Especially when I actually got the forbidden fruit of the linux community to work on my system which turn out that it was a problem with the intel integrated graphics card driver in fedora it is defaulted to a 'experimental' driver when it actuall comes with the correct driver for the card which uses shared memory with the system & dynamic memory which automatically allocates memory as needed for the graphics. I would like to get some help resolving this issue of not being able to run programs from my user account that require root access. -- Diolch yn fawr, Ashley