I've got four systems on which this has happend.

After pulling the latest updates to Redhat 3 and Fedora Core 1 (have various systems), X will not start except as root.

/var/log/messages reads

"...modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-134

but i don't think that's the only problem here as i add a module alias for this and it still doesn't work.

and why can root start up X?

my basic question here is whether anyone else has had problems firing up X since updating redhat or fedora.

ps - it might have to do with the kernel upgrade, which i probably shouldn't have done. i upgraded to 2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp.

harry

The problem was this...

I created a ".xinitrc" file with the line "xscreensaver &" (because like many aspects of KDE, it's screen lock is busted).

anyway, i deleted this file and X starts

Check this thread --->http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=246180