<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:37, James Booth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@booths.net.nz">james@booths.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="font-family:'Verdana';font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;font-style:normal"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">OK, I have blitzed all existing drivers and installed 260.19.36 from the NVidia site. Now it gets weird: I still cannot start an X session as the usual default (and only) user, however, I created a new user account and I can start an X session with that one.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I am not very knowledgable on X, but checked a few things and found that my user accounts .Xauthority file was owned by root. Have changed ownership back to the user account but still no luck. (Picked that up thanks to a warning message when using ssh to remotly log in)</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Given that for whatever reason the .Xauthority file ownership changed, can anyone suggest what else I should check?</p></div></blockquote>
<div><br>What do the X logs say?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve <br></div></div><br>