Comment 4 for bug 778845

I'm having roughly the same issue. I'm using 1.5.1 from source on Sabayon (gentoo).

I need to run sixad -s in a terminal in order to use it. When I use a terminal is asks for a password, if I use Autostart or Alt-F2 or anything else it does nothing.

I've noticed that make install-system is no longer in the makefiles even though it is still in the instructions. Could this be a permissions issue related to this?