xauth: creating new authority file /home/broot/.serverauth.9470 X.Org X Server 1.4.0 Release Date: 5 September 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-rc1-ARCH i686 Current Operating System: Linux chaos 2.6.23-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 27 09:04:14 UTC 2007 i686 Build Date: 05 November 2007 04:47:19PM Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Nov 7 21:02:01 2007 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but has 2 symbols > Ignoring extra symbols Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server BScreen::BScreen: managing screen 0 using visual 0x21, depth 24 apps file failure Error: must specify one of: -solid, -mod, -gradient waiting for X server to shut down xscreensaver: 21:02:23: SIGHUP received: restarting... xscreensaver: 21:02:23: running as broot/broot (1000/1000) ROX-Filer: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0. X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. xscreensaver: Can't open display: :0 xscreensaver: running as broot/broot (1000/1000) xscreensaver: Errors at startup are usually authorization problems. But you're not logging in as root (good!) so something else must be wrong. Did you read the manual and the FAQ? http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man.html