enragedchip said:
Crap, fake root access as you call it is handled in gnome by GKSudo which is a front end to sudo I believe.
From the sudo manual:
sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser
Ubuntu during the install sets up your user as the permitted user in the case of sudo so you don't need to fart around with sudo passwd root to gain root access, I've got a kubuntu install running occasionally on this machine and I can use sudo with my own password with out any conflicts.
As for the "/etc/init.d/gdm start" thing, I thought addy_010 had sucessfully set up X and a better way to start it would be to execute "/etc/init.d/gdm start" instead of startx. Sorry to addy_010 for any confusion.
I'm perfectly aware of how sudo works.
However, it (GKSudo) will only work and this is the
critical part through a Gnome dialog box. On a vanilla Ubuntu install, typing sudo into the console will ask you for the root password, which doesn't exist, & your password will do nothing.
The permitted users part you are referring to is the entry your user needs to have in the file /etc/sudoers before you are even allowed to use the sudo command- Attempting to use sudo without your user in this file will give you a no permission error.
To be totally precise, GKSudo is actually a type of fakeroot:
provides wrappers around getuid, chown, chmod, mknod,
stat, ..., thereby creating a fake root environment.
Once again back to the problem at hand- When reconfiguring the X-Server, there should be a default list of extensions- Leave these as they are.
The trident error you are getting tells me that you have the wrong driver for your card; Its simply saying that it can't find an appropriate set of bits in the driver file selected.
If you have the vesa driver selected and have left the modules selection at default, then the card is obviously something very odd- Please run lspci (This will list the devices in the system & thier connections) and post anything referring to trident.
Nano is a lightweight texteditor- This is the manual on the official site
http://www.nano-editor.org/docs.php but I wouldn't reccomend that you try to play in the xorg.conf- This is the config file that
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
writes, and editing it will give you no advantages but simply more chance to get things wrong through mistypes etc. (There are some people who prefer to write it totally manually, but this is not something that I would reccomend a novice user goes anywhere near)
Edit #2: Besides this, enragedchip clearly hasn't tried playing with Ubuntu & the xorg.conf file recently- Its /etc/X11/xorg.conf !!!
Hope this helps.
Edit: Crikey, spent nearly 30 mins writing this post lol.
-Leezer-
