From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 17:28:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA29178 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:28:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA29170 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:28:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA05712 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:21:13 -0800 Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA00263; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:19:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:19:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: lars.falch@dbergstrom.dk Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xwindows!? In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 lars.falch@dbergstrom.dk wrote: > Hi there, > > I tried searching the mailing list archive, but I was unable to > find the answer I needed. > > When I launch X (and go back to the console from where I > launched it), I can see that it has reported the following > error: > > PEX extension module not loaded > XIE extension module not loaded > > What does the above modules do? And should I simply ignore the > error? Ignore it, for now. > Now another thing (rather important) - my fvwm is unable to > start, and reports the following error: > > ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libXpm.so.4.6" > > I can't find that library anywhere, not even in the XFree > install packages? So 'startx' launches twm instead. You need to install the xpm port. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major