wildstar84
The fact that you got X to start up at all is a good sign. I’ve never had much luck in Antix w/startx. I just always use the default runlevel 5 which should start up X on it’s own. A cpl. more things to check
1) Where is /tmp set up – ramdisk, or in root (and it’s not full/has plenty of space)? Make sure it’s permissions 777 (so that X run as you can create temp. files, etc.
2) Make sure your .Xauthority file isn’t somehow owned by root, but by you (I’ve had root take ownership of it before, perhaps by running X as root, as you did?).
3) Perhaps, reconfigure or reinstall slim, perhaps it’s config file (/etc/slim.conf) isn’t right?
4) If you have a .xinitrc file, perhapes check / rename it (to try not using it). I still think that starting up the normal way (no “startx”) and it drops you to a terminal login-prompt SHOULD put some useful error messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or slim.log or auth.log which should give some clue as to why X failed to start as user.
Those are the only things I can think of for now.
Regards,
Jim