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Ptomerty
February 19th, 2014, 10:49 PM
After installing X11 on my Ubuntu Server 12.04.4 LTS using this guide:
http://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=linux_server_howto
It never starts up.
I have an AMD Radeon 7950, and it is detected if I run
sudo aticonfig --lsa, but if i run
sudo aticonfig --adapter=all --odgt it gives me the error
ERROR: X needs to be running to perform AMD Overdrive(TM) commands.
In my .bashrc file, export DISPLAY=:0 is at the very end, however it doesn't seem to be taking effect.
If I want a program to recognize my GPU, i have to run
DISPLAY=:0 sudo <command>, which I don't want to do because of security issues.
Can anyone help?

Ptomerty
February 20th, 2014, 10:14 PM
bump, losing my mind, nothing i can do gets export DISPLAY=:0 to run.

deadflowr
February 21st, 2014, 06:46 AM
What happens if you run

startx
?