Not able to start X as normal user

[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:51 PM, unni krishnan <unnikrishnan.a at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am getting following error when starting X as normal user :
>
> Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.27.10 i686
> Current Operating System: Linux host.webofunni.com 2.6.27.10 #1 SMP PREEMPT
> Wed Dec 24 21:37:14 CET 2008 i686
> (WW) xf86ReadBIOS: Failed to open /dev/mem (Operation not permitted)
> (WW) xf86OpenConsole: chown /dev/tty7 failed: Operation not permitted
> (WW) xf86OpenConsole: chown /dev/tty0 failed: Operation not permitted
> xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
>
> I am able to start X as root and using xfce as desktop interface. Please
> help.

Is Xorg setuid to root?

sudo chown root $prefix/Xorg
sudo chmod u+s $prefix/Xorg

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Dan