From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Apr 22 6:33:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.realtime.co.uk [194.205.134.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA5F337B423; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:33:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from waynep@zaphod.realtime.co.uk) Received: from zaphod.realtime.co.uk ([194.205.134.208]) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14rJzY-0001Gq-01; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 14:33:32 +0100 Received: from waynep by zaphod.realtime.co.uk with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14rJzO-0004do-00; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 14:33:22 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: - - Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't start X References: <20010422041801.82366.qmail@web13702.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Date: 22 Apr 2001 14:33:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20010422041801.82366.qmail@web13702.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org - - writes: > Hi all, > > I just downloaded and installed "XFree86 4.0.2 > Released". Here is what I did... > > 1) Downloaded the following files: Xinstall.sh, > extract, Xdoc.tgz, Xfenc.tgz, Xlib.tgz, mod.tgz, > Xxserv.tgz, Xbin.tgz, Xetc.tgz, Xfnts.tgz, Xman.tgz, > and Xvar.tgz > 2) installed using the below command: > #sh ./Xinstall.sh > 3) then, I ran xf86configurator. > 4) startx I would strongly suggest that you install XFree86 4.0.3 (or .2) from ports. This will ensure that dependencies are met. -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message