[Plug] Running X on a laptop revisited

[Wayne Eisenberg <EISENBERGW@sintaks.com>]

Title: Running X on a laptop revisited

OK, just to let everyone know:

I finally did get X working. It seems it was a combination of both suggestions. The XFCom_neomagic driver was necessary *and* I didn't have a window manager properly installed. Seems that in trying to squeeze Linux onto a hard drive partition that wasn't quite large enough, I deselected the wrong things to not install during the initial setup. Doh! I used my trusty Partition Magic to redo my partition sizes and once I gave myself about 600MB (between swap and native space) to play with, I didn't have to unchoose too much to get a proper install. I also had to make one more ln -s than the XFCom instructions said to do, but once I did both of those things, it worked! Yay!

Now I have to figure out why Netscape won't run when I dial in to my ISP. It runs ok if I'm not dialed in, but once I connect (and it seems successfully so, since I can ping www.<someplace>.com), I get 3 errors in the terminal window that I try to start Netscape from. To quote:

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to server.
Error: Can't open display: :0
I get this when I'm logged in as root. I know I shouldn't do that, but when I log in as normal me and try to start up kppp, I get the message "kppp not properly installed. binary must be installed with SUID bit set."

The trials and travails of learning a new OS. Sigh.

Thanks,
Wayne

P.S. Sorry for the MIME garbage. I'm trying to get our Exchange admin to change the server settings so my plain text messages go out as plain text.