ATMega 1280 Linux Connection Problem

mrtaylor: I am using KDE. 'kdesu ./arduino' gives no output. I ran './arduino' after and still no rxtx lights and the same avrdude error.

smeezekitty: 'startx' gives:

steven@linux-ov9v:~> startx
xauth:  creating new authority file /home/steven/.serverauth.6193


Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
        If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
        and start again.


Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
         at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 

No protocol specified
giving up.                                                                             
xinit:  Resource temporarily unavailable (errno 11):  unable to connect to X server    
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

Igor86: I'm not sure what you mean by a terminal in X. I'm using the terminal found in the favorites (Konsole).

steven@linux-ov9v:~> sudo su
root's password:
linux-ov9v:/home/steven # cd /home/steven/bin/arduino-0022
linux-ov9v:/home/steven/bin/arduino-0022 # ./arduino
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
        at processing.app.Base.main(Base.java:112)
Caused by: java.awt.HeadlessException: 
No X11 DISPLAY variable was set, but this program performed an operation which requires it.
        at sun.awt.HeadlessToolkit.getMenuShortcutKeyMask(HeadlessToolkit.java:231)
        at processing.core.PApplet.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
        ... 1 more