X doesn't start after mplayer install

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:09:19 -0700
"Danny Colligan" <dannycolligan at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I run "sudo startx" from the command line
> it says:
> 
> xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.8584
> xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
> xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority

Umm - why would you run X as root ( sudo startx) ?
Just 'startx' as your user, surely.

Running X as root is universally deprecated....

Peter
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