Nagging X problem

[Thomas E. Dukes]

> On Sep 25, 2004 at 16:33, Thomas E. Dukes in a soothing rage wrote:
> >> On Sep 25, 2004 at 16:02, Thomas E. Dukes in a soothing rage wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> 
> >> >I'd like to be able to start X as root for such 
> occassions but this 
> >> >lead me back to my initial post.  I didn't realize it was 
> an X/root 
> >> >thing until today.  I still would rather boot to runlevel 3
> >> and stat X
> >> >manually, when needed.
> >> >
> >> >What do I neet to edit to allow root to start X manually. 
>  Its weird 
> >> >that it works under runlevel 5.
> >> Repeat what I posted in my previous posts in this thread for root.
> >
> >I'm not sure what you posted.  I have re-read your posts but 
> can't find 
> >anything specifically about root.  I must have missed 
> something.  Sorry.
> I meant the files you created for the normal user. You have 
> to repeat the process for root as well. If you have 
> switchdesk installed you can execute 'swetchdesk gnome' as root.

Hello,

Yes, I did that.  Still doesn't work.

After I do a crtl-alt-backspace to kill the server, I see a message:

FATAL: Module agpgart not found
[drm] failed to load kernel module

It looks like something may not be loading in runlevel 3.

Any ideas?

TIA