From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 2 7:23:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2D334073 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 07:23:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA46353; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 16:23:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA47935; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 16:23:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA10522; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 16:23:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 16:23:44 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt To: filippo moretti Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Installing XFree86 from ports Message-ID: <20000202162344.A10505@sr.se> Reply-To: Gunnar Flygt References: <20000202155817.A9830@sr.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from gunnut@2ainfo.it on Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 03:20:46PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 03:20:46PM +0100, filippo moretti wrote: > > On 02-Feb-00 Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > Just for fun I thought I should make the upgrade to 3.3.6 of XFree86 by > > using the ports. I don't think I'll do tht again, since when doing it > > that way XFree86 doesn't work as when installing from the binaries found > > in the distribution. > > > > I get an error when trying startx, saying that maybe I'm not the owner > > of the console and then the system tries to call some function in X > > which is unreachable and then finally gives up. > > > > Reinstallation from all the .tgz files fetched from XFree86 fixed the > > whole thing, but it is a bit annoying that the ports installation does > > something to the rights to run X. > Just out of curiosity which version of FreeBSD are running:you should always > referr it when aksing on the list.I think you might have some problem with > /etc/pam.conf but I cannot tell you exactly what it is. > I am waiting for 4.0 both FreeBSD and Xfree > sincerely > Filippo I run 3.4-RELEASE > > > > -- > > __o > > regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ > > email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: filippo moretti > Date: 02-Feb-00 > Time: 15:17:52 > > This message was sent by XFMail > ---------------------------------- -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message