From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 27 6:51:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout07.sul.t-online.com (mailout07.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3FDB37B417 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 06:51:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd08.sul.t-online.de by mailout07.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 16Jbrn-0006vx-05; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:50:43 +0100 Received: from T-Online.DE (520042712742-0001@[80.133.143.191]) by fwd08.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16Jbrm-09XUCOC; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:50:42 +0100 Message-ID: <3C2B35A8.2FF639CF@T-Online.DE> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:52:24 +0100 From: morten.gulbrandsen@t-online.de (Morten Gulbrandsen) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: startx crashes FreeBSD 4.2 References: <3C2A8B9B.D509315C@T-Online.DE> <20011227140005.B1000@k7.mavetju.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 520042712742-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank for the gently advice. This is a statement what I should have done, I hereby apologize for not asking before I started to install. I will newer ever attempt to install everything, without proper investigation. What can I do now ? cd /usr/ports/x11/ make deinstall ? cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree85-4/ make install ? my problem is still that I cannot start the x server. What really is XFree85-4 ? I'm looking for a general purpose desktop solution, I have read recommendations about, FreeBSD 4.4-Release XFree86 3.3.6 KDE 2.2 or higher. I want no linux emulations, and I want to get as close as possible to real unix. I wanted to install some tools for viewing PostScript files. And for converting between PostScript and portable Document format. It was istalled , but it didn't work . Yours Sincerely Morten Gulbrandsen Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:46:51AM +0100, Morten Gulbrandsen wrote: > > Hello, my problem is: > > startx gives fatal server error. > > You should install only the port you're looking for, not everybody > in the x11-category: > > cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree85-4 > make install > > After you've installed it, run xf86config (or xf86cfg, I'm never > sure which one) and go on with the configuration stuff. > > Edwin > > -- > Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org > edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: > ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message